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Rolo's Book Buzz
Book Reviews and More
Welcome to the Buzz
Welcome to Rolo's Book Buzz. This is a venture born of a whole bunch of love and a little bit of boredom. Since retiring from my job as a high school English teacher, I read A LOT of books. Here you will find some of the books I love as well as an occasional "book nerd" commentary or two. I hope you enjoy the blog and find some books here that you will love too.
None of This is True
Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true...
Angela Roloson
Oct 3, 20232 min read
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When We Were Dragons
A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions...
Angela Roloson
Oct 3, 20232 min read
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Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become? In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a...
Angela Roloson
Sep 20, 20232 min read
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Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person whole? William Waters grew up in a house...
Angela Roloson
Sep 16, 20232 min read
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The Only One Left by Riley Sager
At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast...
Angela Roloson
Sep 16, 20233 min read
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The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ever be a story to tell. For the first fifty years of her...
Angela Roloson
Sep 16, 20233 min read
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All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
What does it mean to lose your roots—within your culture, within your family—and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born...
Angela Roloson
Aug 30, 20233 min read
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The Art of Inheriting Secrets
When Olivia Shaw’s mother dies, the sophisticated food editor is astonished to learn she’s inherited a centuries-old English estate—and a...
Angela Roloson
Aug 30, 20232 min read
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When We Believed in Mermaids
An Amazon Charts, Washington Post , Wall Street Journal , and USA Today bestseller. From the author of The Art of Inheriting Secrets...
Angela Roloson
Aug 25, 20232 min read
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Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes deep into the well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy...
Angela Roloson
Aug 25, 20233 min read
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This is My America
Dear Martin meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting YA novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice...
Angela Roloson
Aug 25, 20232 min read
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The Island of Sea Women
Set on the Korean island of Jeju, The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See follows Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls from very different...
Angela Roloson
Aug 25, 20233 min read
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The Love Theorem by Camilla Isley
Are a rocket scientist and Hollywood’s brightest star a match made in heaven or is it a catastrophe headed for a crash landing? Lana...
Angela Roloson
Aug 16, 20232 min read
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Invisible Son by Kim Johnson
From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of This Is My America comes another thriller about a wrongly accused teen...
Angela Roloson
Aug 16, 20232 min read
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Tailspin by John Armbruster
World War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute and lived. Captured by the Germans, he survived a...
Angela Roloson
Aug 16, 20232 min read
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Solito
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this memoir. Trip. My...
Angela Roloson
Aug 16, 20232 min read
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The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW “A fun, page-turning delight.” —Minneapolis...
Angela Roloson
Jul 30, 20231 min read
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Love, Theoretically
"The reigning queen of STEM romance."—The Washington Post An Indie Next and Library Reads Pick! Rival physicists collide in a vortex of...
Angela Roloson
Jul 30, 20232 min read
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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION A New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2022 * An Oprah's Book Club Selection * An Instant New...
Angela Roloson
Jul 30, 20233 min read
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Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
The Christian faith is supposed to produce deep, positive change. So why doesn't it seem to work in "real life"? That question screamed...
Angela Roloson
Jul 30, 20232 min read
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