The Paris Wife by Paula McLain is the January book choice of one book club. I foisted this on my second book club as well. This historical fiction follows Ernest Hemingway and his first wife Hadley from the time they met through their strange divorce. Set in the 1920’s there is plenty of alcohol, jazz, […]
Magic Bites (Kate Daniels #1) by Ilona Andrews was recommended to me from 3 different sources. Since I like the supernatural world of vampires, were-animals, and magic, my friends and Goodreads thought this book series would be just the ticket. Kate Daniels is a mercenary who makes her living cleaning up paranormal problems. Since this
On a walk and talk with a GF, when I told her about my adventures in Second Life, she recommended Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. The story, set in 2044, shows a society that spends more time in an online avatar driven world called OASIS, than they do in real life. When the creator
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” by Lena Dunham interested me because I enjoyed Dunham’s movie Tiny Furniture and her HBO series Girls. On one hand she is a raw, unabashed, tell-it-like-it-is young woman and on the other hand she’s a train wreck that I can’t seem to
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“Slurring is the cursive of speech…” Rules of Civility by Amor Towles was the December book club choice. Set in 1938, this story follows Katie Kontent (pronounced content as in happy) as a young, single, working girl trying to find her way in NY city. Starting out in a boarding house, as a typist, and
