"The Cellist of Sarajevo"
my take: This is a quick and excellent read … although it’s about WAR so it’s not entirely easy. It’s …
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Ordinary Grace
my take: Apparently, William Kent Krueger writes mysteries … and this novel is a venture off his usual style … …
What Happened to Sophie Wilder?
my take: A classic boy loves the wrong girl for waaaaaay too long story. And much more. Both main characters …
Frances and Bernard
my take: I can’t contain myself: this book is fabulous. Could end the review right here. Seriously. First of all, …
The Good Lord Bird
my take: Several years ago I listened to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on tape in my van (yes, that’s …
The Round House
my take: I loved the voice of the narrator in this coming-of-age story. Joe looks back on a pivotal moment …
This is Where I Leave You
my take: Really, the family in this book has the corner on the DYSFUNCTION market. It’s being made into a …
A Moveable Feast
my take: This was great to read after reading The Paris Wife … if we hadn’t read that last year, …
Cleopatra: A Life
my take: I’m always, always, always glad to have read a biography once it’s done (and I’m almost always, always, …
Gone Girl
my take: I’d heard mixed reviews for this book … some loved it, some hated it, some seemed overwhelmed by …
How to be a Woman
my take: Whoa. This was a tough one. The first few chapters had the book chicks emailing to see if …
"Rules of Civility"
My take: I loved this! A great cast of characters, great plot, great depiction of the 1930’s, great fun with …
Like Life
my take: Okay, sometimes an author redeems themselves and sometimes you read one work by an author and you know …
Netherland
my take: Under the category of “expectations are everything”… we picked this book for Book Chicks based on my mother’s …
In the Woods
my take: Hubby and daughter have read all the Tana French novels … this is my first and the one …
The Dead Father’s Club
my take: We at book chicks like to think of ourselves as Shakespeare experts since reading Will in the World. …
The Great Gatsby
my take: True confessions: this is not the cover of the copy I read … mine (from the 80’s?) has …
A Primate’s Memoir
my take: Our book club loved this … everybody had something to say and everybody read it! As a fan …
The Paris Wife
my take: As soon as I finished this I did two things: 1) checked Wikipedia to see if the facts …
Willpower
my take: This is right up my alley … informative, practical, full of anecdotal stories, (some of very famous people), …
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