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A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons — Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Ugh. I hate when my book club chooses nonfiction. Not because I dislike nonfiction per se, but simply because I want my pleasure reading to be…well, pleasurable. So often, nonfiction is too much like work! I do like NF sometimes … Continue reading
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Ok, this is another one I really tried to like. It was a book club choice and it did keep my interest, progressed fairly quickly, and would have been strongly in the ‘like’ column except for three things: the fake-ass lower Mississippi dialogue, … Continue reading
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
So this book, a selection my for teacher book club at school, was not what I expected. (Not sure what the rest of the group thought of it since I missed the meeting, but since Cutting for Stone was a hit, WHO KNOWS!) … Continue reading
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Wow, guys. This was such a peach. All the reviews I read of call it “riveting,” “enthralling,” “epic,” and “The Kite Runner of the year.” And I like riveting, enthralling, epic novels and I did like The Kite Runner, so this had … Continue reading
The Paris Wife by Paula McClain
Not a bad read, but this alludes to much in Hemingway’s life (and the lives of other notable expatriates) I was unfamiliar with, so it was sometimes confusing. Hadley, Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, is the narrator and main character here … Continue reading
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