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Jennifer Weiner: Fiction and Fact

May 27, 2021

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  Daisy Shoemaker lives one of those perfect-on-paper lives. She has her own small successful cooking business, her marriage and life are comfortable, and she has a reasonable relationship with her teenage daughter, Beatrice. All good until Jennifer Weiner scratches the surface and removes the shine in her new novel That Summer. The cracks start to show when Daisy and ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction, Non-fiction Tagged: contemporary life, vacation reading, women

The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

January 4, 2021

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For ten years Lakshmi has worked hard to build her own business. Now, at 30, she hopes to use her connections among the wealthy women of Jaipur to score a financial payout large enough for her to finally finish her own home and bring her parents from their small village to live with her. They’d married her off when she was fifteen, but she’d disgraced them by running away from ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, historical fiction, India, vacation reading, women

Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh

December 9, 2020

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Right now, fast paced books are my favorite kind of reading. Normally, I love diverse, literary fiction, but it’s not enough to hold my COVID/post-election attention. This is also my backlist reading time of the year, when I’m less about striking out on my own—reading new books you may not know about—and more about reading older books I’ve heard about. The bookish stars aligned ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: suspense, thriller, vacation reading

Majesty: A Novel by Katharine McGee

December 2, 2020

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Earlier this fall I read and fell in love with American Royals by Katharine McGee. The book’s sequel, Majesty came out in September and I had it on hold at the library, but I finally gave up and bought it (gasp!) because I couldn’t wait any longer. Also, I’m really trying to support my local book store. IF YOU HAVEN'T READ  AMERICAN ROYALS AND THINK YOU WILL(I highly recommend ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: fantasy, vacation reading, young adult

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