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Tracy Flick Can’t Win

Catherine — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 04:35:09 +0000

Tracy Flick Can’t Win is the latest novel from Tom Perrotta and if the title’s name looks familiar it’s because this is a sequel to his novel, Election. I never read the first book, but know Tracy well from the movie adaptation of the book. She was a goody-two-shoes teenager perfectly played by Reese Witherspoon. […]

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It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mrs. Fletcher

Catherine — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 04:14:06 +0000

Eve Fletcher is an attractive divorcée in her mid-forties. Her husband left her for a woman he met on Craigslist and her only child, Brendan is heading off to college on the morning. Eve has a good job, but feels like it is all that’s left to her with her husband and her son gone […]

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The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta

Catherine — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:11:35 +0000

Was it The Rapture or not? This is the launch point for Tom Perrotta’s new novel The Leftovers and his take on the possibly apocryphal event is so well done it’s one more reminder to me that I’ll never be a novelist. This theme has been cartoonized by every fundamentalist/zombie writer in the world with heavy emphasis […]

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