"My Name is Lucy Barton"
my take: I borrowed this from the virtual library to read on my Kindle … not a super big fan …
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"Longbourn"
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"Good on Paper"
my take: I picked this book based on a review that mentioned it was about language/translation which seemed like a …
"The Memory of Light"
my take: Thank you, Francisco X. Stork for writing this book. I cried when I read your author’s note at …
"How to Be Here"
my take: Part memoir, part pep talk, Rob Bell’s new book feels like he’s chatting with you giving you great …
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
my take: True confessions: I did not read this for book club. I knew I couldn’t make the September meeting, …
Rising Strong
my take: Daring Greatly was about being in the arena – engaging in life, going for it, trying and possibly …
The Cleaner of Chartres
my take: This is a quiet novel that runs deep. Agnes, the cleaner, appears to be a blank slate upon …
The Fishermen
my take: The upbeat cover of this book is deceptive … it is a colorful but oh-so-woe-full tale behind this …
"White Teeth"
my take: Every so often while reading I had to look back to the publishing date to double check that …
"The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy"
my take: Oh, I do love is kind of book…for every season and an especially great vacation read: an engaging …
The Book of Jonah
my take: In this is a modern re-telling of the Biblical book, Tarshish and Ninevah are replaced with New York …
"Why We Get Fat"
my take: This is a treatise on why the calories in/calories out paradigm that is touted by medical experts, exercise …
Top Picks July – December 2015
Ah, the second half. These are the most memorable after a year of 50+ books. Fiction: There were parts of …
"Our Souls at Night"
my take: I read this slim, quiet novel in two doses. It’s the tender love story of two aging, widowed …
"Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands"
my take: I read this shortly after I read Station Eleven, so at first it seemed like another post-apocolyptic story, …
"All My Puny Sorrows"
my take: Sometimes one picks a book by the reviews on the front covers – this is one of those …
"Fates and Furies"
my take: The title and the cover design give great clues about this read: it’s a wild ride. The Fates …
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