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Seattle Reads + KUOW Book Club: Celebrating National Poetry Month with local voices
In partnership with SPL, the KUOW Book Club will read "You Are Here" in April, which is National Poetry Month.
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What's the KUOW Book Club reading in February?
The KUOW Book Club is reading and cooking along with "Feasts of Good Fortune" by Hsiao-Ching Chou and Meilee Chou Riddle this month.
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'Feasts of Good Fortune' is a delight for the senses and curious minds
This is the KUOW Book Club, and we're cooking along with "Feasts of Good Fortune" by Hsiao-Ching Chou and Meilee Chou Riddle.
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Food becomes a means of recovery for one young Seattle author in 'Feasts of Good Fortune'
This is the KUOW Book Club, and we just finished reading — and cooking along with — "Feasts of Good Fortune" by Hsiao-Ching Chou and her daughter Meilee Chou Riddle.
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What's the KUOW Book Club reading in March?
The KUOW Book Club is reading "Ma and Me" by Putsata Reang this month.
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This Seattle author tells the 'deeper truth of our species' and evolution through the female body
Whether readers pick up a copy of the original "Eve" or the new YA adaptation, they'll be presented with an incredibly well-researched yet conversational and funny account of humanity.
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Beauty and the geek: Emerald City Comic Con swoons for romantasy
Among the comic book heroes and anime cosplayers of Emerald City Comic con, another fandom exists: romantasy readers.
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Author Putsata Reang describes life as a refugee when 'you cannot go in the water or come up on land'
This is KUOW's book club, and we just read through the first half of Putsata Reang's memoir "Ma and Me."
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Witchcraft and reproductive rights: The horror of Grady Hendrix's latest novel
"Witchcraft for Wayward Girls" is, in its most basic form, about unwed teenage mothers who are sent away to a "home" in Florida where they find a coven of witches in the woods. That's the short, fun version.
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Memoirist Putsata Reang talks about the 'complicated love' for America, Cambodia, and Ma
This is the KUOW Book Club, and we just finished reading "Ma and Me" by Putsata Reang.
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What's the KUOW Book Club reading in April?
In partnership with the Seattle Public Library, the KUOW Book Club will read "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" this month.
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A decade after 'The Really Big One,' this author imagines the devastation of the major quake
Emma Pattee's novel "Tilt" follows a woman who is 37-weeks pregnant when the Big One hits. Worse yet, the woman, Annie, is 37-weeks pregnant and at IKEA.
