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my take: As I was in my good not great reading slump, a friend suggested this as a possibility to …

my take: I am a confirmed sucker for all things Jane Austen…finishing the Pride and Prejudice story? a movie based …

my take: When I heard Ivan Doig died (recently), I thought it a fitting time to read this. Sometimes a …

my take: I’d been reading a lot of good books. I was looking for a great one. I chatted one …

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my take: I was quite surprised by the almost flippant tone of the opening of this novel. It seemed light, …

my take: A small town saga set in Wisconsin, the novel is populated with a large cast of everyday characters …

my take: When American service men were stationed in Japan at the end of WWII, many found Japanese brides to …

my take: Written in 1936, instead of being historical fiction it’s, um, period literature, I guess. Which is rather refreshing. …

my take: When Alice, a 39 year old mother of three, falls off her spin bike and knocks her head …

my take: The opening lines of The Silver Star are reminiscent of The Glass Castle: “My sister saved my life when …

my take: I always love a Fannie Flagg book…generally small-town Southern, salt of the earth people, slightly funny, slightly touching. …

my take: I loved Let the Great World Spin and when I saw this at the book store I grabbed it. Spin had a …

my take: I very much enjoyed John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, so when I saw this at Target …

my take: Having loved Me Before You, I was eager to read another Jo Jo Moyes novel. Daughter Anne read …

my take: This has been on and off my to-read pile for a long time. I was excited about it …

my take: There’s something wonderfully haunting about this book. In the opening paragraph: “When the end came, it seemed to …

my take: Isn’t it interesting that the timing of when one reads a book very much affects the experience? After …

my take: This was an impulse buy for me … I’d seen it and heard about it and decided to …