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- fiction (29), non-fiction (16), NF (2), Lib and Jack (1), a non-working mother and George (1), daughter of a client of one of the daughters-in-law. (1), Three siblings and their spouses (had to make a family tree to keep them straight) come together for their first Christmas after their mother's death. Decisions about the mother's house in FL and a missing child (1), which they can't afford. Plans eventually get downgraded to a tick-infested lot and a tiny shipping container house. (1), and Shelly's obsession with having a house in the Hamptons (1), a commercial voice over artist (1), is drawn in to a group of friends who form a business to blackmail men. Two stars for decent writing and for engaging me for half the novel. (1), who wants to promote the town as a tourist destination. Ed turns to illegal means to try to provide that. (1), a college freshman in Edinburgh (1), sent to Paris to retrieve her. (1), who recently took up with a French radical and was filmed throwing a champagne bottle through a restaurant window and son Nick (1), her daughter Greta (1), running for the senate (1), and through Lucas' letters to his former Jungian therapist. The plot unspools slowly and I wasn't able to foresee many of the details. (1), A family moves back to his hometown in Maine where he becomes a bit too interested in the lives of his former employer Ed and his wife Trish (1), Perfect short story/novella narrated by Marguerite (1), This guy can write — I would read anything by him. (1), Very millennial take on inherited wealth and divestment. Fine (1), but not the fault of only this author. (1), especially the frustration part (1), yada. A little sick of the formula (1), frustration and redemption (1), the usual back and forth (1), with octopus. Nothing new plotwise (1), surrounding themes of climate crisis (1), whoe wife dies in the attack (1), 12 children of various ages and their parents at an east coast summer rental when a hurricane hits and society begins to crumble. Lots and lots of biblical allegory (1), including one about her fathers — birth father plus two stepfathers. (1), Ciera's much later. An excellent thriller/mystery. (1), Oliver and Ciera meet at the beginning of the pandemic lockdown in Dublin. You learn Oliver's secret early (1), although with whiplash worthy changes in characterization in the last quarter of the novel. Written in the middle of the #MeToo movement. Kind of feel like I need a shower after this one. (1), and her brother Billy's rape trial. Not too badly written (1), adopted into great NYC wealth (1), raised with much money to have impeccable taste and skills. (1), The aftermath of a shooting at a movie theater (1), as told by the narrator (1), a research chemist (1), attempt to establish a retreat on an uninhabited (1), including one toxically penitent one (of course) (1), Three 7th century monks (1), not quite sure which. Odd ending. (1), spends his time volunteering. Develops a relationship with his neighbors who live in a 'glass house' in Phoenix. Either a quiet novel or oddly flat (1), her short-lived marriage to Calvin Evans and her unlikely career as a TV cooking host. Could have used more editing. (1), Elizabeth Zott (1), By the author of Hamnet. Lucrezia de Medici is married off to a Spanish duke at the age of 15. Loosely based on reality. (1), American journeys (Huck Finn) and the Professor Abernathe (The Wizard of Oz) book of heros. Loved learning about 'in medeas res' (1), woven in with the BLM protests. But also an oddly flat segment about Covid (1), a millionaire philanthropist who made her money in music production (totally unbelievable element) (1), but interesting for most of it. Russ is an associate minister (1), ' and on (1), and she has a 'better clear rate than the FBI (1), steep rock of an island off the coast of England. Goes about as well as you'd think. Nothing illuminating about the writing re: isolation (1), Sam and Sadie (1), I am so over Lucy Barton. Can no longer stand Lucy (1), Four couples on a long weekend at Dark Fell Farm in Scotland. A note waiting for the women says that one of the husbands has been killed. (1), has become repetitive. This book did not enrich my life in any way. (1), while good (1), the least perceptive character ever. And Strout's writing (1), a banker (1), divergence of generational outlook. Not quite sure what her primary point was meant to be. (1), and quite difficult to like. Good writing. (1), is dispatched by her mother inlaw (who has no knowledge of the separation) to Greece to try to find the missing husband. Realized part way in that I had read this several years ago. Didn’t like it any better this time. (1), along with Marx (1), but very one-note and I ended up skimming great chunks. (1), movie star and her husband and posse. Set in the 60's maybe. Taken hostage. Sounds interesting (1), I never wanted it to end. (1), too. It also could have used a bit more editing re: length (1), but that may have been realistic (1), able to evoke almost any emotion realistically. I yearned for Sam and Sadie to have a closer connection later in life (1), are videogame creators. Excellent writing (1), long married but with separate houses in a small WI town. Jack befriends 10 yr old Charlie. Lib's son from 40 years ago returns. Excellent writing. A touch too much rumination about truth (1), but otherwise perfect. (1), lies and lies of omission (1), married to Louis (1), but it sure was interesting. Sam Bankman-Fried and the implosion of FTX and Alameda Research. (1), let alone cryptocurrencies (1), I still understand next to nothing about securities and trading and exchanges (1), writing about her life at Chatsworth House (1), one of the Mitford sisters (1), but that you can't reach. (1), Perfectly fine Ann Cleeves novel (1), shyer sister and her chance meeting with him when he's a cab driver in NYC. Long (1), Ridiculous Gen x (?) drivel. Outstandingly bad plotline of two female art students spending a year studying in Berlin. Think they're being spied on by their absent landlord (1), that's all I could take. Did not finish. (1), decide to open a 'nightclub' in their apartment (1), An examination of 10 people at a dinner party and their backgrounds. Also tangentially becomes a murder mystery. (1), very angst-y. Didn’t finish. (1), Read about 50 pages. So heavy-handed that I didn't go on. (1), 17 year old girl goes missing while vacationing at a Caribbean resort. Told through the eyes of her younger (1), unsatisfying ending. (1), who returned to North Bath for a day (1), has Angelman syndrome and is non-verbal. Part description of Eugene being mentally capable (1), becoming the first Black Americans to summit. One of them makes it. Very interesting premise with a subplot about Shiloh (1), A novel about two brothers attempt to summit Mt Everest (1), cheating) husband in the 1970's. Every other chapter about her childhood in Missouri. Soon learned to skip all of those. Took her an amazingly long time to divorce him. Not at all worth it. (1), Written by the heavily Christian woman who walked across the country with her (domineering (1), pretty dense in the middle. Got pretty sick of the Happiness Quotient and baseline happiness idea. (1), but unable to communicate. Decent at the beginning (1), likely either falling over or pushed over a waterfall at a local park. Part mystery surrounding what happened to the father since Eugene is autistic (1), Physician whose son from his first marriage assassinates a presidential front-running candidate. (1), and their brother Eugene goes missing (1), John and Mia (1), The father of twins (1), Amazon manager's memoir (1), who is in the process of mutating into a great white shark. Nearly all reviewers think this is about love and the changes people in love experience. I read it as a commentary on addiction/alcoholism in which a person literally changes before your eyes (1), assumed by all to be dead. Decent but not remarkable — plot or writing. (1), a teacher in small town Texas and generally unlikeable and her life after the death of her husband and estrangement from her son (1), only to fall off a bar stool and subsequently be beaten severely by police officer DelGado. Police chiefs Raymer and Charise Bond. (1), very good. Lot of recurring characters to remember. Primarily about Peter (Sully's son) and peter's estranged son (1), Very one note examination of a sex tape sent by a 13 year old to a 17 year old at an elite private school. No subplots (1), affairs with the tennis pro (1), nicely plotted and definitely a page turner. (1), but a good writing style (1), on their honeymoon in Bora Bora. Discover a locked bag from a plane crash while diving. Many bad decisions ensue. Some of the plot strains credulity (1), producing a documentary about three people just as they’re being released from prison (1), Suspense/thriller with Erin (1), much gossip and a death that just about everyone feels (secretly) guilty about. (1), affairs with each other (1), Four college roommates make a pact to have their funerals while living after the death of the fifth roommate. Not super believable or terribly good. (1), Jason and Lauren (1), Summer on Fire Island w/NYC 1%'ers. Sam and Jen (1), after meeting in a secret society at Yale. Well written (1), Decades long friendship of Will Schwalbe and Chris Maxey (1), Much naval gazing by an elite builder in NYC. I’m sure he could give you 20 pages on 'elite.' Descriptions of jobs and clients were great (1), his ruminations were not. (1), no character development. Skimmed the last half. (1), although to my mind the friendship did not really take off until they were well into their 40's and even then I did not think Will was all that good a friend. (1), Walking the Camino de Santiago with his 19 year old son (1), Not quite up to the same level as the other two (1), etc. Add on to that the whole March/June thing and it's a recipe for loosing interest. Held up well for about the first half. (1), who fell in love while watching each other across the alley between their apartments. Lots and lots of words. Way too many words. (1), The marriage of Jack and Elizabeth (1), A 20-something man/child in France and his girlfriend steal over $2B worth of art from minor museums and keep it in his mother's upstairs apartment. His mother eventually destroys much of it. (1), but you do get to meet another version of Wallace. (1), two of whom meet and form a relationship with a moneyed admirer. It's no Lincoln Highway and doesn't last in your imagination (1), 1930's secretarial school women in NYC (1), which is hard enough to keep straight even without the exasperating tendency of some authors to use names that are way too similar — Adrian and Andre (1), Summer stock actress in Our Town performances at a Michigan theater and her eventual marriage to the director (1), It's basically the TV show Manifest in book form. Many characters (1), I was pleasantly surprised. Great description of her daughter driving the van on salt flats in Chile. (1), making the trip longer than planned. Amazingly good writer (1), they liked it. The pandemic intervened (1), wife and their 9 year old daughter on a years long trip from California to Patagonia in a converted van. Sounds horrific to me (1), My best book of 2023. A father/son drama on equal footing with The Lincoln Highway. (1), who owns a cherry orchard in northern Michigan. (1), and she's an expert marksman (1), The Dog Stars. Not good here. Over the top hyperbole about middle aged PI Celine. She was raised in Paris (1), and she's a sculptress (1), the developer of The Wire. She's sharp and sarcastic (1), what we use for churches (McBain's barn) (1), Klara is an AF to Josie (1), but brilliant writing. (1), MI and her eventual husband Duncan (1), a second grade teacher in Boyne City (1), Another excellent book by the author of Separation Anxiety. Jane (1), and about her husband (1), etc. Loneliness a big theme throughout. Can an AF be lonely? (1), becoming a mother at a late age (1), Personal essays about her career as both a newspaper reporter and an author (1), Marian Graves (1), Theo and David may have been switched in neonatal intensive care. Good premise (1), whose sons (1), Two sets of parents (1), bargaining with our god (1), Daniel and Brit as members of a string quartet. So little happens that it's hard to believe that an entire book emerged (1), Excellent writing (1), is killed by his friend Jonah. Both knew Evangeline (1), loved the image of the diamond on its side. (1), the sirens) (1), Billie. Greek mythology (Ulysses (1), Woolly and Emmett's 8 yr old brother (1), A huge American father/son epic with Emmett (1), recently abandoned by her mother and taken in by Isaac after both boys' deaths. Set north of Vancouver. Comes at love and connection from many different angles (1), son of Quaker Isaac (1), but I liked it. Especially like that she listed the compositions that they played. (1), Teenage Daniel (1), while dealing with their mother and abusive stepfather. (1), including sexual assult (1), Grown daughters Tanya and Nessa recall their youth (1), Jamie and Marian's endeavor to circumnavigate the world from pole to pole. My least favorite Maggie Shipstead novel. (1), her twin brother (1), an early female pilot (1), but on the other hand (1), yada (1), an teenage girl with physical issues due to enhanced genetic engineering (as are most children). Many aspects of religions — how we choose our gods (for Klara (1), Duchess (1), Joanna (1), Parisian (1), Mary Alice (1), independently wealthy (1), Wren (1), Deborah Mitford (1), domestic terrorism (1), Very (1), white privilege (1), Lucas (1), immigration issues (1), Clare (1), Cassie (1), Essays (1), Thomas (1), Clint (1), Jana (1), and Mark (1), Woman (1), African safari (1), but very (1), Ned. (1), Laure (1), Easy read (1), Nancy (1), Husband (1), Shelly (1), much (1), and on. (1), and on (1), rising seas (1), religion etc (1), Gil (1), Henry (1), Nothing engaging here. Skimmed the last half. Even that didn't hold my attention. (1), the sun) (1), but this is just a mess. Set a decade in the future in a New England coastal town. Climate change (1), with themes of different types of aspirations while trying to conceal them. Flashbacks to trauma in a private Main Line high school redeemed it somewhat. (1), Meh. Molly (1), somewhere on the autistic/Asperger's spectrum (1), estranged brother must decide what to do with her mother's archives. (1), she and her surviving (1), but with more sexual overtones). After her mother's death (1), Bea and her two brothers were the subjects of her mother's acclaimed photography (think Sally Mann (1), Seemed like a pretty lightweight treatment of an unsympathetic NYC main character (1), after her death from breast cancer (1), lots of excuses (1), lots of God. Good depiction of the 70's. (1), wife figures everything out. Lots of yearning (1), Typical Franzen. 25% too long (1), Short stories by the author of Separation Anxiety. Her first book. Decent stories with an ironic title. (1), son overdoses (1), is a maid at an upscale hotel. She's unsuspectingly drawn into a drug dealing scheme. Molly wasn’t treated well by either the other characters or the author and her skills were mostly unused in the narrative. (1), haunts her semi-famous former boyfriend (1), with Lucy examining her previous marriage to William. (1), I enjoyed Conviction (1), but very well written and very engaging. Interesting to think of how you'd navigate a legal system on your own in a foreign country. (1), Ariel's husband go missing while she's in Lisbon with hm on a business trip. It's a thriller (1), just excellent writing about a loving and supportive family. (1), a memoir of their family and their life in show business. No gossip (1), Written by Ron Howard and his brother (1), but found nothing compelling here. Didn't finish. (1), mermaids. Good lord. And way too many narrators. (1), Siblings are annoyed that their favored half-sister is throwing a lavish wedding in London. Pretty much all characters unlikeable. (1), post Covid (1), I remember liking Three Junes (1), Japanese newspaper staff report on a downed plane (1), separated from her husband (1), A disappointing novel from the author of one of my favorites (1), in the style of 80's style horror movies. (1), Final girls are the survivors of mass murders (1), yearning for an affair with a parishoner and comparing unfavorably with the other associate leading the church's youth group. Group takes a trip to Arizona (1), A continuation of the Lucy Barton series (1), a sweet-hearted lover of women. Ex-wife Aggie and 'adopted' Jimmy. Heiny respects all of her characters with subtle (1), Had some potential at the beginning. That didn’t last long. (1), but I adored this book. Exceptionally easy to read (1), Logan and Brooke. Enter their 'guest' Savannah. Maybe it just came at the right time in my reading (1), Amy Tory (1), and their adult children (1), who owned the Delaney Tennis Academy (1), Stan and Joy (1), and the psychiatrist who moves to that hospital in order to treat her. Big surprise — she eventually talks. Decidedly average. (1), but her story really mired down. Much skimming. (1), victim of a purse-snatcher and Laurent (1), Remarkable woman (1), Nonverbal woman in a psychiatric hospital after killing her husband (1), they moved to LA and basically got rid of all their animals. (1), skimmed some. Very disappointed that in the end (1), Collection of essays that varied widely in their interest to me. Liked some (1), NY family with 2 children at a Long Island AirBNB during an obliquely identified national crisis. owners come to the house knowing that they can't return to their NYC high rise. Wonderful writing with a really skilled omniscient POV. (1), but with great insights on marriage (1), the book store owner who finds the discarded purse (1), as always. Looks at each situation from multiple angles and doesn’t shy away from the ethics involved. (1), Main character (1), Young woman coming to grips with the illness and eventual death of her Korean born mother. Tries to learn to cook her mother's traditional Korean dishes. Kept looking for a glossary that might describe more of the dishes and give a pronunciation guide. (1), Should have been a better-than-decent novel about a somewhat low budget personal injury lawyer and his teenage client with an unidentifiable brain injury. Became a decent novel with a weird and ineffective sci-fi element to it. (1), I actually enjoyed this. Cleared up some of the misconceptions of The Crown and was a good corollary to the Her Majesty book. (1), but not well-written enough to hold my interest. Skimmed the second half. (1), who then recovers and pops right back into the story with no further complications. (1), is terminally ill and brings her family together before her planned death. Book needed some serious editing help. (1), so it was easy to dip in and out. Can’t say that I learned anything particularly impressive. (1), and their eventual meeting. Every review refers to it as 'charming.' Best character was Laurent's daughter. (1), especially as the chapters are very short (1), now working at a bookstore and being haunted by a late customer. Good telling of native American beliefs of spirits and morality (1), an indigenous woman recently released from prison (1), with her husband on a ventilator (1), Tookie (1), effortless writing. Plus tennis! (1), sibling competition and memories. Excellent (1), a violently disruptive student at the school where Dixon is a counselor. Final quarter of the book was overly long and overly angsty (1)
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