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Danya Kukafka’s Notes on an Execution pulls a hat-trick, though—delivering a riveting plot, stunning character exploration, and lyrical writing. https://lidijahilje.com/blog/book-club-recap-the-dearly-beloved-by-cara-wall monthly 0.5 2024-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6595b573641cbe26d3210a3b/1704310143914-5U7W7DXAFRWNCQY0HXAP/The+dearly+beloved.png BLOG - Book Club Recap: The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall Some books get a lot of hype whether they deserve it or not. Some books don’t get almost any hype, and boy do they deserve it. The Dearly Beloved is one of those books— richly imagined, deeply thought out, and marvelously written. Still, our book club dissected it thoroughly. 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Here’s what we talked about. https://lidijahilje.com/blog/book-club-recap-the-vanishing-half-by-brit-bennett monthly 0.5 2024-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6595b573641cbe26d3210a3b/1704310143866-EQLF5ODZFTY01O6E51G0/Screenshot+2020-12-08+at+14.18.38.png BLOG - Book Club Recap: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett - The book we’re ending our book club year with (if we don’t count the Rogue-Book-Club section that will be reading one more book this December) is the most ambitiously executed pick so far. So much to learn from this book! And yes—it is intimidating to see someone’s second book so effortlessly complex. 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