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What’s It About? (From Booklist)In this intricate tale of love, loss, and redemption, Wolitzer, author most recently of The Doctor’s Daughter (2006), tells the story of three women whose paths cross during a summer in the Hamptons. Lissy Snyder, an insecure second wife, is uncertain of her place in her husband’s heart and feels intimidated [...]
Lovehampton, by Sherri Rifkin is Recommended. When Tori Miller’s boyfriend dumps her in the cab ride home from her best friend’s wedding she is devastated and undergoes a severe downturn. She has no life to speak of for the next two years until her friends, seeing how far she has gotten away from her old [...]
Shimmer, by Eric Barnes is A Good Read. Robbie Case is the head of Core, a multi-million dollar company that he unwittingly founds with his cousin Trevor. Dealing in selling blue boxes full of high technology that greatly improves the speed and flow of information, he’s walking around with the secret that none of it [...]
I had the pleasure of reading Maria Semple’s wonderful book, This One Is Mine. I just have to say that I loved This One Is Mine. As I first began reading it, I didn’t know that I would love it. I was appalled by the characters, but still almost right away I was rooting for them. It’s [...]
Wait For Me , by An Na is Recommended. Supposedly Mina has everything going for her. She is an honor student on the verge of attending her senior year of college after which she plans on attending to Harvard; but is she? These are the things that she allows her mother to believe the summer [...]
What’s It About?tag=linsbla-20 (From the back cover) From the moment Louisa first catches sight of the strange man who occupies a forbidden room on the thirty-third floor, she is determined to befriend him. Unbeknownst to Louisa, he is Nikola Tesla—inventor of AC electricity and wireless communication—and he is living out his last days at the [...]
I have been working on this post since Sunday. The date on it has changed four times. I have since finished Lady Audley’s Secret. I think this is just a slump writing week for me. The Likeness, by Tana French. So I finished The Likeness and it ended up being about the only thing that [...]
This One Is Mine, Maria Semple is Highly Recommended. David and Violet Parry are supposed to be living the good life. He is a successful music executive, and Violet is now a stay-at-home mom after years of being a successful television writer. They have a lavish lifestyle, a beautiful toddler and a gorgeous home that [...]
Just as I was talking about what a shamelessly promiscuous reader I had reverted back to being, something happened. I started reading The Likeness, by Tana French, and all of a sudden I’m in a relationship, and just absolutely loving this book. I mean, love! Talk about being drawn into the story. I tried to [...]
The Blue Notebook, by James A. Levine is Highly Recommended. Batuk is a fifteen-year-old girl living in a brothel on Common Street in Mumbai, India. The bright points in her life are her best friend, Puneet, a male prostitute living a few “nests” down from her in the same brothel, and a notebook which she [...]