"Telegraph Avenue"
my take: Oh, man, this novel has everything and the kitchen sink. Most of the way through the book I …
"Wild"
my take: This is a great adventure and great memoir. Really, by the end, I felt like I’d hiked a …
"Someone Else’s Love Story"
my take: The real love story here is my head-over-heels infatuation with all things Joshilyn Jackson writes. For reals. This …
"The Fault in Our Stars"
my take: This was almost as wonderful and necessary as Wonder … but for a slightly older age group. (And …
"Grain Brain"
my take: A few years ago I went gluten-free. I hadn’t been feeling great – bloaty, foggy headed, fatigued. I …
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 …
"One Thousand Gifts"
my take: It took me two tries to read this. The first attempt was to read jointly with one of …
The Jane Austen Marriage Manual
my take: Pretty much I’m a sucker for anything Jane, and I had Jane on the brain as I perused …
"The Art Forger"
my take: I couldn’t decide at first if I liked the writing style or not … and then I got …
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 …
"The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving"
my take: There’s hardly a more pathetic main character than Benjamin Benjamin and a complete cast of wacky supporting actors …
"The Interestings"
my take: The cover is colorful. The book is long. The cover doesn’t make up for the length of the …
"The Tennis Partner"
my take: I loved Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone so when this was suggested as a good read, I was …
"Anticancer"
my take: I was having lunch with a new friend and when the convo got around to books (as any …
"START"
my take: I was a little skeptical when I was at the Bookman (Grand Haven) asking for this title … …
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
my take: This read is as fun as its cover and title. It’s mostly written in emails and faxes and …
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, …
"Say Nice Things About Detroit"
my take: As a born and bred West Michigan girl, I remember when we were moving to the Detroit area …
"The Space Between Us"
my take: I’ve had this on a pile to read for almost a year. I’m glad to have picked it …
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