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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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Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Catherine — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 07:28:14 +0000

Olive Kitteridge is a woman in her 60s, living in a small town in Maine, who has something to say about everyone and most of it is not good. She is also the character at the center of Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name. Strout is coming out with a sequel, […]

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9 Books for Fun Summer Reading

Catherine — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 07:21:02 +0000

The first official day of summer is Thursday so what better way to kick it off then having your summer reading lined up. I never used to think I was a seasonal reader, but this year the only books that are working for me are light, heavy on plot not characters, and fast paced. Humor […]

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How Hard Can It Be?

Catherine — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 07:27:53 +0000

You know how sometimes you see a trailer for a movie and it is fantastic, then you go see the movie and realize all the best bits were in the trailer? The cover for How Hard Can It Be? is like that. Every woman I know who’s seen it has laughed out loud, but does that […]

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The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

Catherine — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 07:11:50 +0000

When Joan Ashby is in her early twenties she is acclaimed as a writer to watch. Her short stories win awards, she is interviewed and profiled, and all await her first novel. She knows this is her one true gift and so even when she marries Martin, a man she loves deeply, it is […]

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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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Fitness Junkie: A Novel

Catherine — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 07:39:41 +0000

There are many things that make being a booklover wonderful, but one that makes me positively giddy is when a book finds me when I need it most. That feeling of a book that knows what you need and provides it. No point in prolonging the suspense, I’m talking about Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza’s new […]

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Great Summer Reading: Standard Deviation

Catherine — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 07:42:22 +0000

I don’t know any other way to begin this review than to say I’m pretty sure Katherine Heiny and I would be besties if we met. Not just because of the first name thing, but because cocktails and snarky conversation on the foibles of the human condition would abound if we ever got together. Which […]

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The Widow of Wall Street

Catherine — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 07:36:05 +0000

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 […]

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The Arrangement: A Novel by Sarah Dunn

Catherine — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 07:35:47 +0000

How to describe Sarah Dunn’s new novel The Arrangement? All that is in my head is the Seinfeld episode where Jerry and Elaine decide to break the standards of friends and become friends-with-benefits. They are oh-so-careful with rules and boundaries and are certain they have cracked the code for getting to have sex without […]

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