Category: Book/Author Highlight
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Book of the Month: The Viscount Who Loved Me
We’re continuing the read through Bridgerton, and come to one of the better books in the series. Some may say the best- Anthony and Kate! I’ve already discussed my thoughts on the book in my previous Ranking the Bridgerton series post- see tags, and not much changed. I love the sweetness of the romance since…
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Series Highlight: I Survived
Funny story. Even though I have seen this series around for years (it was first published around 2009), it was placed next to the “Choose your own adventure” series and like an idiot, I judged it by the cover and thought it was another one of thsoe with cooler covers. Fast forward to last month,…
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Book Highlight: What Jews Look Like
Too many Jews have been told: “You don’t look Jewish!” It begs the question, “What does Jewish look like?” Well, there are over fifteen million Jews in the world, which means there are more than fifteen million ways to look and be Jewish. It can look like setting out menorahs on tribal land, adding kimchi to the seder plate, organizing for…
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Book of the Month: Lace
“Which one of you bitches is my mother?”Four elegant, successful, and sophisticated women in their forties are called to New York’s Pierre Hotel to meet Lili — a beautiful, young, and notoriously temperamental Hollywood movie star. None of the women knows exactly why she is there; each has a reason to hate Lili and each…
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Book of the Month: Hitwoman #3-4
We did it! We did it! We finished our final book club selection, making it twenty books in one year. Yay us! Well technically, it’s twenty one as #3 of the Hitwoman series, The Hitwoman gets Lucky is a novella of 80 pages so it made sense to continue on to #4 which is a…
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Book of the Month: Gone with the Wind
Ah yes, the book that has lived for almost a hundred years and it makes one feel like they’ve lived through a hundred years. Yes, I’m talking about Margaret Mitchell’s decade-spanning work, Gone with the Wind, covering before, during and after the Civil War from the POV of one stubborn hellion, Scarlet O’Hara. There’s not…
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America’s First Daughter Review
After thoroughly enjoying Dray and Kamoie’s book on the Hamiltos, I had to go read their first book together about Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy’ Jefferson and how she shaped the founding father we know today. It is always said that behind every great man, there was a great woman and this is especially prominant…
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Book of the Month: Crocodile on the Sandbank
A bit of The Mummy, a bit of a stand-alone Agatha Christie, the adventures of Amelia Peabody feature a plain, spinster along the lines of Jane Eyre. Albeit a more sprightly Jane Eyre what with the shooting, escavating and mummy-hunting. Let me back up a bit with the death of Amelia’s father, she decides to…
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Book of the Month: The Great Alone
Ah the great Alaskan wilderness, a place to reconnect to nature. Or in Hannah’s novel, a place where family demons come to tear them apart with no chance for help in the middle of a blizzard. Aka a nightmare in my thinking.
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Author Highlight: Coco Simon
Get ready for this one, with 58 books spreading across 4 different series, this prolific author has terrific taste.
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