2018-11-15 23:13
This is one of those books which leaves a lot of questions unanswered. That didn’t bother me too much, because it is certainly more about the journey than the destination. … Read More
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2018-11-14 13:00
Frances Gerety, working as a copywriter for the Ayers ad agency in the 1940s, came up with the grammatically incorrect slogan “A Diamond Is Forever” and helped initiate the perce… Read More
2018-11-13 22:33
Alice Kelleher is the elderly matriarch of the Kelleher family and owns a beach house in Maine. She has made arrangements to donate the property to the local Catholic church in an effo… Read More
2018-11-07 11:30
With a title like this, we at least know to expect the narrator to be unreliable, especially since she is in a coma for most of the novel. Amber Reynolds can hear everything that is ha… Read More
2018-10-31 11:00
David Sheff writes this memoir from the perspective of a father going through hell. His smart and charismatic son Nic becomes addicted to meth, but both father and son are in denial ab… Read More
2018-10-24 10:30
This novel bounces between WWI and the aftermath of WWII, with a young female protagonist in both time periods. Eve Gardner is prominent in both, but particularly in the WWI sections… Read More
2018-10-17 10:30
This novel may be about feminism in the 21stcentury or about mentors, but I got something else out of it. For me, it’s about good people doing good work but still making very ser… Read More
2018-10-14 23:57
What a disappointment. Joe Castleman and his wife Joan are on their way to Helsinki so that Joe can accept a literary prize that is a notch or so below the Nobel. Joa… Read More
2018-10-10 10:30
Lately it seems that all novels have a drunken female protagonist. In this book, Cassie’s drinking is the reason that she’s unsure if she’s responsible for a murder… Read More
2018-10-07 22:56
John is a public defender who has decided to take up deer hunting, since his wife Sara has recently given birth to a son. John’s sister Catherine is married to Spencer, who is th… Read More
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