Month: September 2025
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Ellen Willott The Cemetery of Untold Stories is a whimsical-yet-gritty magical realism novel by Julia Alvarez. This might feel like an unlikely combination, but think 100 Years of Solitude. It certainly shares a heritage with Colombian Garcia Marquez, Alvarez herself American-Dominican, so continuing the Latin American tradition of magical realism. I liked how the Spanish…
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Ellen Willott Hello! It is I, an avowed book-lover. I did a four-year undergrad in English literature and then came back for more. I have read many books: many for fun, many not for fun, and I have met a lot of other people who have read a lot of books. I’ve come to appreciate…
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Ellen Willott I’m going to come out and say it: I picked Sea Bean off the shelf because it was sparkly. Like a sea bean itself, it stood out against the texture of the background and I was drawn in, magpie-like. For that reason, I didn’t know what I was reading. Yes, I could have…
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