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Accelerated

October 29, 2012

accelerated

Sean is an artist working as an editor at a celebrity rag while trying to take care of his 8-year-old son, Toby. Several months ago his network executive wife decided she needed “time away” to find herself and abandoned father and son. Sean is left trying to manage his job and the care of his son, which includes negotiating the piranha-like waters of the posh private school ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, family, New York City, Pegasus, social issues

Back to Blood

October 26, 2012

Back to Blood

Religion is dying…but everybody still has to believe in something. It would be intolerable—you couldn’t stand it—to finally have to say to yourself, “Why keep pretending? I’m nothing but a random atom…” So, my people, that leaves only our blood, the bloodlines that course through our very bodies to unite us. All people everywhere, you have no choice but—Back to blood!   In ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, Little Brown and Company, satire, social issues

The Art Forger

October 22, 2012

The Art Forger

The 1990 theft of thirteen painting from the Gardner museum in Boston is still one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in the art world. Despite the seeming ineptitude of the two thieves, a massive manhunt and a $5 million reward, the works have never been recovered. B.A. Shapiro uses this theft as the background for her new book The Art Forger. Claire Roth is a talented artist ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Algonquin Books, art, book clubs, historical fiction, mystery, suspense

The Wine of Solitude

October 12, 2012

wine of solitude

At eight, Hélène Karol lives in a small Russian town with her parents, Boris and Bella, and her grandparents. She is an odd, lonely girl largely because her mother is willful, spoiled and selfish, interested in only her own desires and unwilling to do anything more than blame her daughter for spoiling her fun. When her father loses his job and leaves for Siberia to manage a ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, historical fiction, Russia, World War I

Does This Church Make Me Look Fat?

October 10, 2012

church

I missed Rhoda Janzen’s first book, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home so jumping into her newest book, Does This Church Make Look Fat?, was a bit like going to a new high school your sophomore year. Yes, they speak the language but you don’t know any of the backstory or the cliques. Also, I’ll admit it. I wanted to read the book because the title made me ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, Grand Central Publishing, medical, memoir, religion

Goldberg Variations: A Novel

October 6, 2012

goldberg

Gloria Garrison née Goldberg is a successful businesswoman with an eleven million dollar fashion/beauty empire. She is also self-absorbed, superficial and of an emotional temperature cold enough to make the Arctic look welcoming. She refuses to visit a dying friend in the hospital and little to no reason is given; she simply doesn’t want to go. Is it any surprise then, that as ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, family, Scribner

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