Tag: Life
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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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THE MANY DAUGHTERS OF AFONG MOY by JAMIE FORD
This is a rather difficult review to write. There were so many things I had never heard of before. The story of seven women. Living with generational trauma. We begin with Dorothy Moy. Washington’s one-time poet laureate. When her young daughter begins showing signs of the same type of behavior that plagues Dorothy, she decides…
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HELLO JUNE! Spillin’ Tea!
Here it is June already. It hasn’t been the greatest few weeks, has it? Children are being murdered in their classrooms, here in a hospital, and craziness is rampant. I rarely turn on the news anymore. It’s soon primary time so all of the politicians in Oklahoma are bragging about being endorsed by the other…
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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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Our Little World by Karen Winn
Coming of age in the ’80s. So much angst. So many secrets and misunderstandings that go with having a sibling in your school who you think is so much more than you are. It’s a dangerous thing and can end in lifelong emotional trauma. Bee and her sister Audrina are 12 and 11. A new…
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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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Smile and Look Pretty by AMANDA PELLEGRINO*BLOG TOUR* @amandapeliss @harpercollins@parkrowbooks @netgalley
Four best friends, all with jobs as assistants to bosses who really are horrid. While they meet to gripe about them it just doesn’t seem enough. Cate decides to write a blog where they can anonymously tell stories about these bosses and they all jump in. With help from Lauren, Olivia, and Max, these women…
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Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother’s death and her hidden past–a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. This story begins in the present with siblings, Byron and Benny dealing…
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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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Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it back? This is a rather dark story. Julius and Jeanie are twins. 51 years old and still living with Mom, Dot, in an isolated cottage with very little to call their own. They…
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