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We All Love the Beautiful Girls
We All Love the Beautiful Girls | Joanne Proulx
14 posts | 7 read | 1 reading | 10 to read
Who do the lucky become when their luck sours? One frigid winter night, the happily prosperous Mia and Michael Slate discover that a close friend and business partner has cheated them out of their life savings. On the same night, their son, Finn, passes out in the snow at a party a mistake with shattering consequences. Everyone finds their own ways of coping with the ensuing losses. For Finn, its Jess, a former babysitter who sneaks into his bed at night, even as she refuses to leave her boyfriend. Mia and Michael find themselves forgoing tenderness for rougher sex and seeking solace outside their marriage: Mia in a flirtation with a former colleague, whose empty condo becomes a blank canvas for a new life, and Michael at an abandoned baseball diamond, with a rusty pitching machine and a street kid eager to catch balls in Finns old glove. As they creep closer to the edge of betrayal, infidelity, and revenge the story moves into more savage terrain. With honesty, compassion, and a tough emotional precision, award-winning author Joanne Proulx explores the itch of the flesh, sexual aggression, the reach of love and anger, and the question of who ultimately suffers when the privileged stumble.
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GatheringBooks
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#IndelibleMoments Day 23: This seems rife for heartache and #Disappointment. Recent book haul from Kinokuniya Dubai.

Eggs 💔💔 2y
TheLudicReader I loved this book. 2y
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Reagan
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This book is making me sad, and frankly stressing me out. Maybe I understand now how MacGruber feels when I pick her up so I can shower her with love. She looks not quite as happy as I do 😬 I tried to think of an uplifting book today since my huge tbr is mostly super serious and depressing and murdery. Recommendations?

Bookzombie Maybe revisit a childhood favorite or try a comic book. 5y
Bookzombie Or sometimes I like a romance. I‘m partial to historicals but any will do. 🙂 5y
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Krystallion
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Mehso-so

I liked the dynamics of the characters but the story fell flat for me. It felt empty at the end. Maybe that was the goal but it really lost its luster.

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TheLudicReader
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Pickpick

I stayed up way past my bedtime to finish this Canadian gem. The Slate and Conrad families have been entwined for years, through business, friendship and love. A betrayal kick starts a death spiral of revenge, and redemption...and it is SO good. These are damaged, complicated and wholly human characters. Highly recommended.

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TheLudicReader
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currently reading.

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ferskner
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Mehso-so

I love stories about family dynamics shifting from small, innocuous choices, but once past the initial setup, I didn't care. To some degree I don't think I was supposed to like the main characters, but was completely indifferent to them. The last chapter was amazing, though (of course, it was focused on a side character).

#booked2018 #flowersorswordoncover @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft #litsyatoz @BookishMarginalia

Cinfhen I have this ARC but it‘s not calling to me...your review is helpful 6y
ferskner @Cinfhen I also don't love literary fiction all the time, so I may not be the best reader for this. It's not bad writing at all, just not very interesting to me. 6y
Cinfhen I generally like literary fiction but something was off with this book😜 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage But, hey, you checked one off the list!! 👏🏻👏🏻 6y
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BookNAround
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Up next. Gatsby is my beautiful girl (albeit desperately in need of a grooming at this point.) #schnauzersoflitsy #dogsoflitsy

Melissa_J Ellie just had a grooming this week! They look like teddy bears when they are all fluffy 😊 6y
Lreads I think she is adorable! 6y
Karkar I love it when they are fuzzy. 6y
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Rhondareads
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Today‘s book mail a true variety a chilling novel about seemingly normal happy lives that suddenly spin out of control. The Optimist‘s Guide To letting GobA Family Saga with this beautiful cover & a new British mystery series A Brush With Death .Now to pick which one first.💃🏼

Reviewsbylola I love your painting. 😍 And yay for book mail! 6y
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kyraleseberg
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I enjoyed this much more than I expected to! A contemporary family drama with so many layers of human emotion. The drama pulled me in but the complicated relationships between characters kept me enthralled!
Full review on Goodreads.
Thanks to Grand Central Publishing and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

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dixi_e
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Wow. The ending was completely unexpected. I‘m still not sure how well I think it fits into the longer narrative ... It seemed like it was trying to capitalize on the #metoo movement and that it was more afterthought than requirement. The epilogue also seemed out of place / unneeded. But, it was a good book and I liked how the characters struggled to adapt to the changes in their lives and found both purpose and heartache.

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dixi_e
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I‘m eerily delighted at this unexpected edit.

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dixi_e
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Love a mama who wants to ditch it all for her own desires.

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dixi_e
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Another Sunday, another morning #readingattherink

The “shattering consequences” faced by Finn and family caught me unexpected, as did the back-stabbing friend/work partner. The ensuing unraveling of a previously ‘good‘ life is pulling me in (and reminding me to be thankful for my kids & life).

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dixi_e
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And now on to this before it needs to be returned. #currentlyreading #librarylove