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July Reading Wrap-Up

July 30, 2021

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  July. What a month! On the bright side there was this: Me getting to see my mother after 18 months apart. She's the person who encouraged my love of reading. And that’s about as much as I need to write about July because everything else was just life. My reading was odd, but I’m hearing from a lot of friends that they’re going through the same thing. Namely, the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: contemporary life, cultural, humor, mini-reviews, vacation reading

The Paper Palace

July 26, 2021

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No more regrets for what I haven’t done. Now only regrets for what I have done. I love him, I hate myself. I love myself, I hate him. This is the end of a long story. These are the words of Eleanor (Elle) a 50-year-old, happily married woman who had sex last night with Jonas, her best friend. He’s been in love with her since they were tweens. Their furtive encounter took place ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, childhood, contemporary life, literary, marriage

The Startup Wife: A Novel

July 19, 2021

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Asha has her life figured out. She’s a brilliant coder and has just landed a spot in a highly coveted tech lab at MIT, where she’s working on developing the holy grail of algorithms—instilling artificial intelligence with empathy. It’s her sole focus in life until she runs into Cyrus, her high school crush and everything changes. They fall in love, marry, and inadvertently ... Read More...

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God Spare the Girls

June 23, 2021

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What do you do when your entire family is perfect, but you’re 18 and confused? For Caroline Nolan, in God Spare the Girls, it’s an especially complicated question because her father is Luke Nolan, pastor of a megachurch in Texas. Her mother Ruthie is the perfect matriarch, calm and always perfectly coiffed. Worst of all, is her older sister Abigail, her father’s favorite for ... Read More...

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

Impostor Syndrome: A Novel

June 16, 2021

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One Julia is the wildly successful COO of Tangerine, one of the world’s largest technology companies (think Facebook). She’s happily married, living a life most of us only dream about. The other is a watchful, young Russian orphan desperate to be adopted. Plain and quiet, she’s ignored until later she catches the eye of Leo, a recruiter for the SPB, Russia’s secret intelligence ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, political intrigue

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

June 11, 2021

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If there’s one thing I’ve learned about Taylor Jenkins Reid it’s that she exerts a magnetic force on readers (I’m looking at you, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & the Six). Her latest, Malibu Rising, is no different, because, once again, she’s crafted a novel that once started needs to be finished without interruption. In this case it’s about the Riva ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: chick lit, contemporary life, vacation reading

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