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When Life Gives You Lululemons

June 4, 2018

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Just when you thought The Devil Wears Prada series was finished, author Lauren Weisberger is back. Previously, she visited Andi in her new incarnation as a magazine editor in Revenge Wears Prada (which I liked, not loved).  Now, in When Life Gives You Lululemons, it is the snarky fashionista Emily who takes center stage. Which, if you ask her, is exactly as it should be.  At ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: chick lit, fashion, Manhattan, Simon & Schuster

May Reading Recap

June 1, 2018

May

No other way to put it: May was a lovely month. Both the weather and my reading kept me charmed. There were a few misses, but overall it was my best reading month this year.   I have no idea how I managed this but somehow, I read A Rule Against Murder, book 4 in the Inspector Gamache series, before reading The Cruelest Month, which is book 3. Mea culpa! Major faux ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: lists, mental health, mini-reviews, mystery, short stories

The Stranger in the Woods

May 30, 2018

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In case this news slipped by you, as it did me: In 2013 a man was apprehended at a children’s summer camp in northern Maine stealing food and supplies. Not particularly interesting except that when asked by the police he can tell them his birth date, but not how old he is—he has no idea what year it is. Further questioning reveals he has no address, no vehicle, no mail, none of ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: biography, book clubs, Knopf, life, New England

The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy

May 25, 2018

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Summertime is thriller time. There’s something about the pacing, when it’s done right, that matches the weather to my brain—overheated and a bit frenetic. The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy is my most recent venture into twisted turn thriller territory. Molloy doesn’t go for subtle in choosing a plot guaranteed to ratchet up the tension: an infant disappears from his mother’s ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: debut, Harper, mystery, New York City, thriller, women

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner

May 23, 2018

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  There isn’t any status in it unless you’d be impressed to know that the Mars Room is not a middling or mediocre strip club but is definitely the worst and most notorious, the very seediest and most circuslike place there is. In stark contrast to all that was warm and lovely in Monday’s book, Tin Man, I’m back today with a book that probably worked because it was ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, Scribner, social issues, women

Tin Man: A Novel by Sarah Winman

May 21, 2018

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When Sarah Winman's Tin Man begins the tragedy of Ellis Judd’s life has already ended. He is a 45-year-old man who works the night shift at a car plant near Oxford, England. He lives alone with a life of monotonous routine and works nights because he can’t sleep. Can’t sleep because he’s left with nothing but memories of his wife, Annie, and his dearest friend, Michael, both of ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: friendship, literary, Putnam

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