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NPR Review: Circling the Sun
“An Airborne Adventurer’s Journey In ‘Circling The Sun'”
New York Times Review: Circling the Sun
“If you were half awake in 2011 (or 2012 or 2013), you couldn’t have avoided Paula McLain’s runaway bestseller, ‘The Paris Wife.'”
The Guardian Review: Circling the Sun
“An aviator, author and racehorse trainer, Markham was too bold, ambitious and unwilling to be curbed by the constraints of her class or gender”
Paula McLain Biography
ReadingGroupGuides. “Paula McLain is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels CIRCLING THE SUN, THE PARIS WIFE and A TICKET TO RIDE, the memoir LIKE FAMILY: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses, and two collections of poetry.”
Penguin Random House Discussion Questions – Vinegar Girl
“In order to provide reading groups with the most informed and thought-provoking questions possible, it is necessary to reveal certain aspects of the story in this novel.”
LitLovers Discussion Questions – Vinegar Girl
“consider these LitLovers talking points for Vinegar Girl”
NPR Book Review: Vinegar Girl
“Vinegar Girl is a fizzy cocktail of a romantic comedy, far more sweet than acidic.”
The Guardian Review: Vinegar Girl
“This update of The Taming of the Shrew is enjoyable but never manages to convince that it’s more than a mere marketing exercise”
The New York Times Review: Vinegar Girl
“Touch Up Your Shakespeare: Anne Tyler Recasts ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ for Our Time”
The Washington Post Review: Vinegar Girl
“Anne Tyler loathes Shakespeare. So she decided to rewrite one of his plays.”
Anne Tyler Biography
Wikipedia. “Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic.”
The Underground Railroad
National Book Foundation Award. “The Underground Railroad confirms Colson Whitehead’s reputation as one of our most daring and inventive writers.”
The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
Pulitzer Prize. “For a smart melding of realism and allegory that combines the violence of slavery and the drama of escape in a myth that speaks to contemporary America.”
Colson Whitehead Wins National Book Award for The Underground Railroad
New York Times. “Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday night for ‘The Underground Railroad,’ a hallucinatory novel about the horrors of American slavery and the sinister permutations of racism.”
Oprah Talks to The Underground Railroad Author Colson Whitehead
Oprah. “Colson Whitehead’s spectacular new novel, The Underground Railroad, is inspired by real-life events—but it’s a feat of imagination. It tells the gripping story of a female slave on a heroic quest to escape captivity. And it’s Oprah’s new book club pick.”
LitLovers Discussion Questions – The Underground Railroad
Sixteen discussion questions.
The Guardian Review: The Underground Railroad
“The author of The Underground Railroad on slavery, privilege and why he took 15 years to tackle the idea that won him a Pulitzer prize”
The Globe and Mail Review: The Underground Railroad
“Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad is a powerful reimagining of American history”
Harvard Magazine Review: The Underground Railroad
“The uncompromising result is at once dazzling and disorienting, the work of a writer flexing, firing on all cylinders.”
The New York Times Review: The Underground Railroad
“‘Underground Railroad’ Lays Bare Horrors of Slavery and its Toxic Legacy”
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