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5 Star Week: The Takedown

April 10, 2017

takedown

This doesn't happen very often, OK, never now that I think about it, but this week I have not one, not two, but three 5 star books that make me all evangelical. Only today's is a new release, but beyond that all three cover a diverse range of reading ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, debut, New York City, social issues, teen years, young adult

The Arrangement: A Novel by Sarah Dunn

March 29, 2017

arrangement

  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 ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, humor, Little Brown and Company, marriage, midlife, New York City

Take It or Leave It: Contemporary Life

August 3, 2016

summer

Contemporary life almost always makes for good fiction, but needs to be done right. That’s why the 'take it or leave it' theme today. I recently read two light fiction novels and only one struck the right note.   Take It   Nine ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Fiction Tagged: chick lit, contemporary life, debut, Doubleday, mini-reviews, New York City

Sweetbitter

May 30, 2016

sweetbitter

  “You know what I dislike? When people use the future as a consolation for the present.”   Tess arrives in NYC in the summer of 2006 from somewhere, but it doesn't matter where because as far as she is concerned she didn't exist ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, coming-of-age, contemporary fiction, debut, Knopf, literary, New York City, restaurants

Tuesday Nights in 1980

April 18, 2016

tuesday nights

  When art dealer Winona George throws a fabulous party on New Year’s Eve 1979 to welcome in the 1980s there’s no way of knowing who and what will converge in her art filled apartment in downtown Manhattan. That James Bennett and his wife Marge ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: art, historical fiction, New York City, Scout Press

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