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Librarian and writer of historical fiction 📚✍️
Debut novel The Doctoress coming September 22nd!

Great literary getaway to Concord, MA! Gathering i

Great literary getaway to Concord, MA! Gathering ideas for my third book with visits to Orchard House, The Wayside Home of Authors, Walden Pond, and Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. #concordmassachusetts #louisamayalcott #waldenpond

I left my jean jacket at the library last year and

I left my jean jacket at the library last year and when I returned it was gone. I mourned the loss of the jacket less than losing my favorite pins. Found this one @chq1874 bookstore the day after I finished my second book, heavily inspired by #joandidion

The best kinds of novels force the reader to choos

The best kinds of novels force the reader to choose between the need to rush through the story to see how it all turns out while also experiencing a tugging feeling to slow down and savor the text because you know you’re reading something special, one of those rare books that stay with you long after you finish. This is one of those books!

I was so excited when @netgalley allowed me early access to @chloekbenjamin Under Story as her previous novel was one that I pressed into countless people’s hands, urging them to read. It’s a book that asks big questions. Under Story asks even bigger ones.

After a chance comment from her mother, Laurel decides to leave home and her job as a mycologist, to work in a galley kitchen in Antarctica. She’s looking for an escape, but all the readers knows is that she's recently divorced, though there are hints throughout the text that this is not the extent of her grief. Before we learn her secrets, we get to know Laurel better as the story travels between the present and her life growing up in Wisconsin.

What interests her about Antarctica is the appearance of the Arc, a mysterious dome of blue-green light over the ice that turns pink in the sunlight. After the scientists studying it come up short, a group of physicists are summoned. Laurel’s ex-husband Eli is among them. He has a theory of the Duoverse, where antimatter rules and everything is its polar opposite. It’s a world where time moves backward, history becomes the future, and people age in reverse. Laurel believes the Arc may be some kind of portal. If she can get to this other universe she might be able to undo the mistakes she’s made in this one.

Nothing in this other world should make sense, yet it does, when the characters, and the readers themselves, learn to look at the world using a different lens. “The Duoverse gave Laurel a second story, after she thought that there was only one.” A profoundly moving story about love & loss that forces the reader to contemplate their own place in time. Buy this one as soon as it comes out!

#chloebenjamin #understory
#bestbooks #bestbooksever

When your writing group not only understands the j

When your writing group not only understands the jaw-dropping moment you were going for in your work, but they actually illustrate it for you.
#writinggroup #writerssupportingwriters #authors #writinglife

Maybe it was the continuing grey skies, but March

Maybe it was the continuing grey skies, but March felt like a bit of a reading rut, despite the number of books read. The only standout was the Newbery Award winning All the Blues in the Sky which was remarkable. When I'm in a reading slump, I usually turn to nonfiction, or a classic, or I reread an old favorite (Blue Nights). Hopefully April will be better both in terms of books and weather!
#readingslump #newberyaward #writersreading

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