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It’s Monday, May 8th: What Are You Reading?

May 8, 2017

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Monday again and May already?! Mentally I’m still in March and while I’ll be happy for some sunshine I’m not sure I’m ready for summer. What I am ready for is a solid streak of great reading. Currently, I’m stalling out and DNFing most new releases or finding them OK at best. Here’s hoping today’s picks will be game changers!     I'm taking a break from ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Feature, Reading Tagged: childhood, contemporary fiction, Manhattan, new adult

The Widow of Wall Street

April 19, 2017

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The Bernie Madoff story is so perfectly set up that there is little point in messing around with its formula, even for fiction. Thankfully, Randy Sue Meyers doesn’t change much of the story in her new novel The Widow of Wall Street. Jake is a trader who starts his own company with a straightforward brokerage side and the more mysterious Club, where he picks stocks for a select ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Atria Books, book clubs, contemporary life, Manhattan, marriage, midlife, wealth

The Futures: A Novel

January 18, 2017

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  Evan and Julia are college sweethearts who decide to take the next step and begin post-college life together in NYC. But while Evan is on a clear path in the world of finance, Julia is a bit more untethered. She finally gets a job as an assistant at a foundation owned by her parents’ friends, but only as a way to pay the bills. The Futures is Anna Pitoniak’s take on the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: coming-of-age, contemporary life, friendship, Little Brown and Company, Manhattan

Small Admissions: A Novel

January 3, 2017

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  Small Admissions is an example of a book whose writing goes the same way as its plot. Confused? I know, it’s weird, but what I mean is that it’s the story of a young woman named Kate whose life goes off the rails when she is unceremoniously dumped by a boyfriend. She basically checks out of life in the most stereotypical ways possible, lingering in an almost catatonic ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Atria Books, coming-of-age, family, humor, Manhattan

Nonfiction November: Book Pairings

November 18, 2016

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  This week the Nonfiction November folks (Katie at Doing Dewey, Lory at Emerald City Book Review, Rachel at Hibernator’s Library, Julz at Julz Reads and Sarah at Sarah's Book Shelves) asked for reading pairings—book that complement each other in the way of other pairings like food and wine, clothes and accessories, chocolate and well…chocolate. Here are a few that came ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Reading Tagged: 1950s, Manhattan, memoir, Pacific Northwest, Paris

The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin

October 24, 2016

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Wonderful news, kittens, one of my 5 star, favorite novels of 2016 comes out in paperback tomorrow! The Swans of Fifth Avenue is fabulously divine reading about Truman Capote, 1950s Manhattan and wealthy people behaving badly. Witty and sharp, it is THE antidote for everything that is dreary right now.     Once upon a time there was a group of very special ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1960s, Bantam, historical fiction, Manhattan, wealth

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