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More Than Enough by Anna Quindlen

March 4, 2026

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Open Anna Quindlen’s new novel More Than Enough and you’ll meet Polly, a happy middle-aged woman. Her husband adores her and she him, she’s an English teacher at all girls’ school, and she has three stalwart, loving friends. Friends who give her a DNA test kit as a gag gift. When there’s a match for a family member she has no knowledge of it tilts the playing board of her life ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, women

Daughter of Egypt

March 2, 2026

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Two young women, separated by thousands of years, stand at the center of Marie Benedict’s new novel, Daughter of Egypt. One is the daughter of a wealthy English lord in post-WWI England while the other is a pharaoh’s daughter in ancient Egypt. Only one has a life predestined by the gods, but both will have to fight to live the life they believe should be theirs. Evelyn ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1920s, Egypt, historical, women

Ask Not by Maureen Callahan

November 14, 2025

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Reams of paper have been expended in dissecting the Kennedys in all their tragedy and fame. Now, author Maureen Callahan joins the fray with a knockout punch in Ask Not. The book’s subtitle is The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed, but in case Callahan’s being too subtle this is a scathing exposé about the Kennedy men and how their extraordinarily entitled beliefs about ... Read More...

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Next Level by Stacy Sims

November 12, 2025

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In 2025 more than 1 BILLION women worldwide will be experiencing menopause. How’s that for a book review opening? That means all of its stages whether it’s peri, menopause, or post. For author Stacy Sims this is something that’s been ignored for far too long and that she’s been researching for decades. She’s got her PhD in physiology as well as in nutrition and she’s published ... Read More...

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The Secret Book Society

October 3, 2025

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It’s 1895 in England and women are kept firmly in their established roles as wives, mothers, and arbiters of society. Deviation from these roles or even a desire for something more could lead to a woman being institutionalized by her guardian “for her own safety”. A guardian was the male in her life be it father, husband, or brother. These female problems were often thought to ... Read More...

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The Correspondent

September 16, 2025

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When Sybil Van Antwerp came of age there was no such thing as digital. Given that, she sees no reason to abandon her lifelong habit of communicating via letter. She’ll even use email when it is the only option, but that is as much as she’ll concede. This means Virginia Evans’ debut The Correspondent is an epistolary novel comprised only of Sybil‘s communications with the ... Read More...

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