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Happens Every Day

Sunday, February 18, 2018

Happens Every Day: An All Too-True Story by Isabel Gillies

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Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

Saturday, February 10, 2018

Wow. I read this book so long ago.  Published in 1987 (one of Oprah’s first book club picks I think) this really is an unusual and very affecting book, told completely in the first person by Ellen, maybe 11-years old and now with her new, self-picked surname, Foster — because she lives with her “new […]

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The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty

Saturday, February 10, 2018

. Here’s another one I decided to re-read in my attempt to use my own bookshelves for reading material. Moriarty’s second novel has similar themes of relationships (lovers, sisters, friends, daughters) plus the smart tone that keeps me interested. Sophie inherits a house from her ex-boyfriend’s aunt and finds herself in the middle of a […]

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Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty

Friday, February 9, 2018

Sort of going through the book shelves in my standard year’s-beginning-new-leaf way and seeing if anything needs to go. Sometimes I need to read it one more time before I say goodbye (and sometimes I don’t say goodbye, so take THAT Marie Kondo!). Liane Moriarty’s first book is light and female-centric: sisters Cat, Lyn, and […]

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Appointment In Samarra

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Was reading a treatise on growing older by Lewis Lapham and he said this was his favorite book, one he reads and re-reads as the years unwind, so I had to read it. Published in 1934, it reads like other books of its era (think Fitzgerald) with terse dialogue of the age and an undercurrent […]

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Miss Julia’s School of Beauty

Monday, January 15, 2018

The binge continues.

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