Orange is the New Black
my take: Whilst visiting Daughter and her Bebe back when he was a wee thing, we decided to try the …
What Alice Forgot
my take: When Alice, a 39 year old mother of three, falls off her spin bike and knocks her head …
"Small Victories"
my take: As noted in a previous post, Anne and I are incarnations of a very similar being. So she …
"The Silver Star"
my take: The opening lines of The Silver Star are reminiscent of The Glass Castle: “My sister saved my life when …
The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion
my take: I always love a Fannie Flagg book…generally small-town Southern, salt of the earth people, slightly funny, slightly touching. …
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
my take: I put off starting this because it’s nonfiction AND it’s India. It was obvious to me it was …
Transatlantic
my take: I loved Let the Great World Spin and when I saw this at the book store I grabbed it. Spin had a …
"This is the Story of a Happy Marriage"
my take: This is a compilation of Ann Patchett’s various magazine articles and a few new essays ~ the book …
"Paper Towns"
my take: I very much enjoyed John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, so when I saw this at Target …
"Sense and Sensibility"
my take: I really can’t help myself: this series of current authors re-writing the Austen novels is so juicy I …
The One Plus One
my take: Having loved Me Before You, I was eager to read another Jo Jo Moyes novel. Daughter Anne read …
Divergent
my take: This has been on and off my to-read pile for a long time. I was excited about it …
"Crow Lake"
my take: There’s something wonderfully haunting about this book. In the opening paragraph: “When the end came, it seemed to …
The Master Butchers Singing Club
my take: Isn’t it interesting that the timing of when one reads a book very much affects the experience? After …
Landline
my take: This was an impulse buy for me … I’d seen it and heard about it and decided to …
"Nineteen Minutes"
my take: When I asked a young friend what she likes to read, without hestitation she answered “anything by Jodi …
"The Daughters of Mars"
my take: I learned about this from a friend (former soccer moms together) who reads this blog … I bought …
The Storied Life of A.J. Firky
my take: This is just fun. If you love book stores, if you love books, if you love love triumphing …
"Marmee and Louisa"
my take: Every year at Book Chicks book club we read a biography or autobiography. And every year we’re all …
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