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Dreams Under Glass
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Anca L. Szil�gyi
Morgan Wallace
, November 15, 2022
I love this book. Binnie is an aspiring artist working as a paralegal in New York in 2008. The demands of her day job threaten to drain her of time and energy to pursue her art. She tries to navigate both law office politics and the intimidating culture of the art world. Will she find the grit to continue when success or even encouragement feel impossibly elusive? It doesn't help that inappropriate photos mysteriously appear on her work computer and she gets vaguely threatening messages from an unknown email account. This book is a page-turner. About two-thirds of the way through, an event occurs that caught me by surprise and I had to stop reading and go back to previous chapters and make sure that I had paid close enough attention. Even though it flows easily, this book rewards careful reading. Do that, and you will enjoy it.
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Daughters of the Air
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Anca L. Szil�gyi
Morgan Wallace
, July 04, 2018
This story, set in the late 1970s-early 80s, is a pleasure to read, full of sensory detail. The settings are vivid. The characters are fully rendered and believable. Our hero, the impulsive, enigmatic Pluta, realizes her abducted father, a victim of the Argentinian government, will never return to his family. She escapes from the Connecticut boarding school to which her mother has sent her and flees to New York to make her own way. She quickly discovers that the streets are a bad place for a fourteen-year-old. Plus, she sees apparitions and meets people who may be more than what they seem. And her own body begins to change in an unexpected way.... If you like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time or the movies Pan's Labyrinth or Birdman, I think you will enjoy this. Also recommended for fans of Chekhov, fairy tales, literary fiction, or magical realism.
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Piper Perish
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Kayla Cagan
Morgan Wallace
, July 04, 2018
Piper Perish is a portrait of the artist as a young woman. But it is not static--it is filled with motion and emotion. We are reading Piper's journal. She is passionate and she carries us along as she leaves her Texas high school behind and prepares to attend art school in New York. She meets obstacles, but she is tenacious, and her tenacity is her strength. The narrative moves right along. The characters, especially Piper, feel real. The setting, present-day Houston, is vividly depicted. The author does a good job of relating the story via the point-of-view character's journal entries, which had to be challenging. I enjoyed this book. I highly recommend it, especially for young readers. Also recommended for fans of the film, Dead Poets Society.
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