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Introduction
Mystery guest
Week in Review
Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
The Family Way by Christopher DiRaddo
My Friends by Hisham Matar
Music & Silence by Rose Tremain
Season of Fury and Wonder by Sharon Butala
Anyone's Ghost by August Thompson
pickI enjoyed reading this book. It is 3 novellas in one book. All of the female characters know each other. Loved the banter between these characters. Rated this book a 4 out of 5 stars.
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
1. Nothing in particular
2. I'm actually traveling tomorrow to DC for a long weekend. This year is ten years since college and me & my close group of friends are doing our own mini reunion
3. My health and my family
Wanna play? @sebrittainclark @KateReadsYA @Kristy_K
pickI found this book because I'm (im)patiently waiting for Daisy Johnson to write another book. Her story was first and fantastic, but the rest were great, too. I especially loved "Sour Hall" by Naomi Booth and "The Dampness Is Spreading" by Emma Glass.
My favorite day of the year, the local AAUW used book sale! Added some series titles I needed, found a O‘Nan book I never heard of, added to my Hilderbrand collection. Only one nonfiction and I was happy to find it. All in all a great haul. I always say buying a book and reading a book are two separate pleasures! #bookhaul #MountTBR
pickAs a big fan of Laurie Frankel, my verdict for this one is: good but not great. Frankel always writes about family in a compelling way, but I found her to be more didactic than usual (especially the end). And while I loved the witty writing style, it felt like everyone- adults, kids, etc- had the same voice. It was sort of like Aaron Sorkin (💗) dialogue: clever and snappy but a little too perfect to feel believable.
pickThis book nearly destroyed me.
Written in brilliant brittle prose, it shows the main character Grace, come to fame as an actress in her early teens, floating untethered through that no man's land between life and nothingness; between detachment, depression, guilt, insecurity, loneliness, emptiness, self-destruction & utter despair and flickers of hope, trying to cope somehow after being abused sexually and emotionally by her mentor in Hollywood.
