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"Small Great Things"
my take: Whew. Almost quit on this one. Some of the content was so disturbing I wasn’t sure I wanted …
"August Snow"
my take: This was recommended by Nancy Pearl (Book Lust) recently. She mentioned that in these unsettling times in the …
"Commonwealth"
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"The Ramblers"
my take: As I was sorting through book piles, I came across this HARDCOVER book and asked hubby where & …
"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 …
"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 …
"Fates and Furies"
my take: The title and the cover design give great clues about this read: it’s a wild ride. The Fates …
"Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk"
my take: It’s not long into this novel that the reader can start to figure that the halftime walk is …
"Florence Gordon"
my take: A bit of a cross between Olive Kitteridge and Emily, Alone, Florence is a somewhat crotchety feminist whose …
"What Alice Forgot"
my take: When Alice, a 39 year old mother of three, falls off her spin bike and knocks her head …
"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 …
"Landline"
my take: This was an impulse buy for me … I’d seen it and heard about it and decided to …
