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Next bookclub pick by my friend Leigh. This has been on my shelves for years glad to finally read it. I have another friend who told me this was his favorite book so looking forward to it.

This book was so heartbreaking but I do love a good family saga even as dysfunctional this loving family turned out to be.

Thank you, my friends: 51,000 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews on Goodreads . Is it time to discover (or rediscover) the novel about a home birth, a midwife on trial, and a young girl coming of age in Vermont that first introduced my work to so many of you? @DoubledayBooks

4 ⭐️ Enjoyed most of the book, but it could have been a bit shorter #2025 #bookclub #retelling #fiction #oprahsbookclub

So, back when Oprah started her book club, I was super into it and read quite a few of the first books she chose. This beauty was one of them. Decided to reread it this week and I‘m so glad I did. It‘s still wonderful, and 20 years later (omg I‘m old) it still resonates. Would you believe this is the only Wally Lamb book I‘ve read? 🤦‍♀️

This was a soft pick for this one which I read as part of the #ShelfSweeper Readathon #4Elizabeth. @Tove_Reads Book 2 from my shelf finished.

An interesting story finding out all about the secret‘s o& a pilot who was killed in an explosion in the air. As you find out more you get more and more annoyed by him, and what you find out. Some interesting twists along the way. Not sure what I make of the ending of the epilogue.

The tagged book is my second book read for the #ShelfSweeper Readathon @Tove_Reads #4Elizabeth

This book has been sitting on my shelf for more than 10 years. It tells the story of a wife who is awoken in the middle of the night to be told her pilot husband has been killed in an aeroplane accident, and goes on to tell his back story with no doubt some surprises along the way.

Tackle the TBR 🤓📚
What are you reading?
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Continuing the countdown of my books, from 1st to 25th, THE JACKAL‘S MISTRESS. Today it‘s my 5th novel, a 1997 story about a midwife on trial for manslaughter -- and the novel that would become my second movie (starring Sissy Spacek and Alison Pill), an Oprah's Book Club selection, and a #1 New York Times bestseller.

After two years of doing this I think I still have enough unread books to continue! So I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.

#ABookADay2025

I had this on my shelves for at least 11 years and never noticed the Ophrah's Book Club bubble. I'm not sorry I finally read it but the blurb on the back uses words like "sweet" and "tender" and for me it was brutal! Women trapped in awful marriages with no love. I wonder what I would have made of this if I read it long before I left my own marriage. It was another book from the 90s where the 10/11-year-old acts very much more grown up ⬇️