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MEMPHIS READS: NEW JIM CROW by MICHELLE ALEXANDER

Melissa Reviews: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander.  “The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is that it appears voluntary. People choose to commit crimes, and that’s why they are locked up or locked…

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MEMPHIS READS: LOCK EVERY DOOR by RILEY SAGER

Andrea reviews  LOCK EVERY DOOR by RIley Sager,  Dutton, 2019. Jules Larsen has not had the easiest life by any stretch of the imagination. Her beloved older sister,  Jane, disappeared into thin air when Jules was seventeen. Then when she was 19, both of parents died in a house fire. Now…

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MEMPHIS READS: MY DARK VANESSA by KATE ELIZABETH RUSSELL

Andrea reviews MY DARK VANESSA by Kate Elizabeth Russell, Harper Collins, 2020, 372 pages. It has been 17 years since 15 year-old Vanessa Wye was in Jacob Strane’s high school honors literature class. It’s also been 17 years since Strane, as Vanessa calls him because “he was never a Jacob…

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MEMPHIS READS: THE BALLAD OF SNAKES AND SONGBIRDS by SUZANNE COLLINS

Melissa reviews Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Books, 2020, 510 pages. The long-awaited prequel to the beloved Hunger Games Trilogy is finally here! The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is told from Coriolanus Snow’s perspective who grows to be the much hated dictator of Panem from…

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MEMPHIS READS: THE LIBRARY BOOK by SUSAN ORLEAN

Melissa H. reviews THE LIBRARY BOOK by Susan Orlean, Simon and Schuster, 2018, 317 pages. “The library is a gathering pool of narratives and of the people who come to find them. It is where we can glimpse immortality; in the library, we can live forever.”  The first time I heard…

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MEMPHIS READS: RAYNE & DELILAH’S MIDNITE MATINEE by JEFF ZENTER

  Sharon reviews Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zenter, Crown Books, 2019,  400 pages Josie and Delia are best friends.  They share everything, including a love for old, bad, monster movies.  Every Friday night, they host a show on local TV, complete with costumes, cheap props and skeletons…

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MEMPHIS READS: I LOVE YOU SO MOCHI by Sarah Kuhn

Sharon reviews I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn   9781338302882   Scholastic Press, 2019.   308 pages   Kimi’s mom is an up and coming artist.  Her art is made up of splashes of color on a canvas.  Kimi was an artist, and that’s something she and her mom could stay sane over.  But…

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MEMPHIS READS: BENT HEAVENS by Daniel Krause

Laura reviews Bent Heavens by Daniel Krause, Henry Holt and Co, 2020. Liv Fleming’s father, Lee, appeared one day, naked and filthy, at the edges of the town square, claiming he’d been abducted by aliens. As the seasons changed, Lee didn’t get better; he claimed the aliens would be back,…

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MEMPHIS READS: THE BOY FROM THE WOODS by HARLAN COBEN

Andrea reviews THE BOY FROM THE WOODS by Harlan Coben,  Grand Central Publishing, 2020, 371 pages. You know what it’s like to know one of your favorite authors is coming out another book and you can’t wait to read it? You figure the hold list is going to be mighty…

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