Category: Life
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TAKE MY HUSBAND by ELLEN MEISTER
A dark comedy! Only one thing stands in the way of Laurel Applebaum’s happiness…Doug Applebaum. Ever found yourself fantasizing about single life? No husband to cook for, clean for, and basically, you feel like you’ve adopted a man-child? Yes, yes I have. And this dark comedy is just that. Laurel has had enough of Doug.…
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Dispatches from the Gilded Age by Julia Reed
Forward by Roy Blount, Jr. In the middle of the night on March 11, 1980, the phone rang in Julia Reed’s Georgetown dorm. It was her boss at Newsweek, where she was an intern. He told her to get in her car and drive to her alma mater, the Madeira School. Her former headmistress, Jean Harris, had…
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SUCH BIG DREAMS by REEMA PATEL
A savvy former street child working at a law office in Mumbai fights for redemption and a chance to live life on her own terms in this fresh, propulsive debut novel about fortune and survival. Rakhi is just twenty-three years old but is still deeply affected by the loss of her best friend eleven years…
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Hello April!
Another April is here. Finally, we got a bit of rain this week. Not much. There are still wildfires burning and the grass at the farm feels like straw, but the time changed and so did the month. Because I have a sister who is an April Fool’s baby, I tend to stay away from…
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WISH YOU WERE HERE by Jodi Picoult
Diana is making a name for herself in the art world. She has her life planned and is on track to be married by thirty, have kids, move to the burbs and she isn’t even engaged! Her boyfriend, Finn, is busy being a surgical resident in New York City. Days before her birthday they will…
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CARE FREE BLACK GIRLS by ZEBA BLAY
This book is a look and a celebration of black women’s identity and impact on pop culture by HuffPost critic, Zeba Blay. Blay was the first person to give us the #carefreeblackgirls, in 2013 on Twitter. This is a series of essays that took me longer than normal to read. This isn’t my story and…
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Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
Is it even summer if we don’t have a beach read from Hilderbrand? Ah, but this one broke my heart. And the main character reminds me of the author! Vivian Howe is the author of 13 books, she lives in Nantucket, has three children, all young adults and in a second she is killed in…
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OLD LOVEGOOD GIRLS by GAIL GODWIN
Old Lovegood Girls is the story of two women and the complicated friendship they share over years and years. The type of friendship where you don’t have to talk every day, but when you do, you just pick up where you left. Feron Hood and Merry Jellicoe are as different as night and day.…
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Happy Sunday! I hope you are all healthy and safe. Oklahoma is having a second surge that is worse than the first one. Also troubling is that this week we added 2 more categories of positive age groups. Under 2 and 6 to 10. Our major positive spreaders are in the 18 to 35 group…
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