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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.
Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb
A gripping page-turner from the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy: Music professor Bern Hendricks discovers a...
Angela Roloson
Jul 30, 20233 min read
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White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are...
Angela Roloson
Jul 30, 20232 min read
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The Child by Fiona Barton
Book Summary When a paragraph in an evening newspaper reveals a decades-old tragedy, most readers barely give it a glance. But for three...
Angela Roloson
Jul 6, 20231 min read
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Hidden Pictures
This book was a 2022 Goodreads Award winner in the category of Best Horror. From Edgar Award-finalist Jason Rekulak comes a wildly...
Angela Roloson
Jun 8, 20233 min read
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A Flicker in the Dark
This book was nominated in two categories for a Goodreads Award (2022). It was nominated as both a Mystery/Thriller as well as in the...
Angela Roloson
Jun 8, 20232 min read
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Killers of a Certain Age
This book was a nominee for a Goodreads Award (2022) in the category of Best Mystery and Thriller. Older women often feel invisible, but...
Angela Roloson
Jun 8, 20232 min read
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All the Broken Places
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable...
Angela Roloson
May 24, 20232 min read
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Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
This novel was nominated for two Goodreads Choice Awards in 2021: Best Historical Fiction and Best Debut Novel. In present-day Miami,...
Angela Roloson
May 24, 20232 min read
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This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith
This book was nominated for a Best Fiction Goodreads Award in 2021. This one is from the award-winning Southern writer who Roxane Gay...
Angela Roloson
May 15, 20232 min read
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We Are Not Like Them
This contemporary fiction novel by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza managed to show us the complexity of an issue that is often...
Angela Roloson
May 1, 20233 min read
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Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
This is a memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. It was Goodreads winner for Best...
Angela Roloson
May 1, 20232 min read
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One For the Money by Janet Evanovich
You've lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car's been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances...
Angela Roloson
Apr 27, 20232 min read
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If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail - for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by...
Angela Roloson
Apr 23, 20232 min read
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Mean Baby by Selma Blair
Selma Blair is known for her roles in Cruel Intentions and in Legally Blonde . She is also an advocate for the multiple sclerosis...
Angela Roloson
Apr 23, 20233 min read
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The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
This novel is a mystery about a Black classical musician whose family heirloom violin is stolen on the eve of the most prestigious...
Angela Roloson
Apr 23, 20232 min read
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Vicious by V.E. Schwab
Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same ambition in each other. In their...
Angela Roloson
Apr 19, 20231 min read
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Resilient by John Eldredge
The human soul has a built-in yearning for joy and beauty and all good things. But that craving for life has taken a real beating in the...
Angela Roloson
Apr 10, 20232 min read
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Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland? For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years...
Angela Roloson
Apr 4, 20232 min read
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Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
This non-fiction book tells the story of the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the...
Angela Roloson
Apr 4, 20232 min read
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One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories that begins at the end . . . Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives on the Terminal...
Angela Roloson
Mar 20, 20232 min read
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