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If you are a person who ever finds it necessary to interact with other people, this book is for you. If you are a mother, daughter, friend, sister, wife, girlfriend, or a human being, Scary Close will have you living intentionally in all of your relationships. Scary Close Tired of trying to impress the people …
A PTA fundraiser ends in a murder…line up the usual suspects. Big Little Lies is set in Australia but will be familiar to anyone who has ever navigated the politics of a public school in an American suburb. The moms at the school negotiate friendship, marriage, trauma, and class birthday parties. I’m not a gruesome …
I discovered Luckiest Girl Alive’s author, Jessica Knoll many years back through some blogs she did. As a former magazine editor, she also did some fictionalized blogging that I followed and when she announced she was writing a book, I tucked that information away and kind of forgot about it. When I heard the book …
Julia Child once said that “People who love to eat are always the best people.” If that is true, then Jim Gaffigan is certainly among the greatest. The stand up comedian’s new book, Food: a Love Story, is truly a love letter to food. He claims no expertise or authority, other than an appreciation of …
Have you ever wondered how seemingly small, every day decisions change the course of your life, and the lives of others? That is the primary question Laine Moriarty tackles in The Husband’s Secret. Through following the lives of three women- Cecilia- the Martha Stewart-esque perfectionist, Tess- the heartbroken, anxious mother, and Rachel- the grief laden retiree- we see how …
I don’t know about you but after The Hunger Games, Divergent etc., I had to take a break from YA dystopia for a little while. Whenever one book gets popular they rush to publish 50 more just like it. I would start a series that was actually pretty good but I just could not get …
What if you were literally the only person left on the planet? Soon to be a movie starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain, The Martian by Andy Weir is like Apollo 13 on steroids. Mark Watney is an astronaut who is separated from the other members of his team when their mission to Mars is …