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CatMS
We Were the Mulvaneys | Joyce Carol Oates
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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.

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ChrisBohjalian
Midwives: A Novel | Chris Bohjalian
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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

BarbaraBB I read and loved this one! Haven‘t raad any other books by you. Recommendations?! 1mo
Suet624 @BarbaraBB I know you're not asking me specifically, but I would suggest avoiding The Double Bind. I've been haunted by that book for years now. 1mo
BarbaraBB @Suet624 In a positive way? 1mo
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BarbaraBB @Suet624 Lol. I won‘t 😀 1mo
ChrisBohjalian @BarbaraBB Yes. 51,000 five-star reviews, 162,000 reviews total, and a 4 star average. 1mo
ChrisBohjalian @BarbaraBB Perhaps Hour of the Witch? 1mo
BarbaraBB Thanks! I‘ll check out both books mentioned! 1mo
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melissajayne
Demon Copperhead: A Novel | Barbara Kingsolver
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4 ⭐️ Enjoyed most of the book, but it could have been a bit shorter #2025 #bookclub #retelling #fiction #oprahsbookclub

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Yes!! It was soooo long! 4mo
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CBee
She's Come Undone | Wally Lamb
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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? 🤦‍♀️

Ruthiella Oprah books are sometimes too sad for me. I did read this one though and also 5mo
AmyG He has a new book coming out June 10….River is waiting. Looks potentially fabulous. 5mo
BarbaraBB I read this one and enjoyed it but before I read the tagged one and I was blown away 5mo
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CBee @Ruthiella I agree - the other ones I read when she first started were quite sad and intense. But, that‘s kind of my thing 😂🤷‍♀️😅 5mo
CBee @BarbaraBB I have that one and have meant to read it a million times. Decided I‘m going to start it today - hopefully🤞🏻😂 5mo
CBee @AmyG have you read any others of his? 5mo
squirrelbrain I had a copy with the same cover, but it somehow got lost over the years - might have to buy another and re-read it. 5mo
AmyG I read We Are Water, too. 5mo
CBee @squirrelbrain I always loved the cover. This is the original one I bought 20 years or so ago! I found a couple places where I dog eared the corners to mark my place - gasp - I haven‘t done that in years! 5mo
CBee @AmyG decided to start I Know This Much is True today and I think I‘m already hooked ♥️ 5mo
AmyG EDIT: I read the tagged, I Know This Much is True and The Hour I First Believed. (edited) 5mo
CBee @AmyG awesome 👏🏻 5mo
Suet624 AmyG @BarbaraBB I Know This Much is True is my absolute favorite of his. My twin boys were babies when I read it and boy did it affect me. 5mo
BarbaraBB @Suet624 That must have be extra special, while having your own twins (edited) 5mo
BarbaraBB @CBee I Know This Much Is True is so good and I also enjoyed The Hour I First Believed @AmyG 5mo
CBee @Suet624 I bet it did! 5mo
Reggie I felt so bad for that girl in here. I remember to lose weight she imagined mold on her food. And that her grandma dies before she gets a chance to visit her but she finds her way to be ok in the end. 5mo
CBee @Reggie yes! She does find her way after so much trauma 😢 5mo
vivastory Remember when they used to sell the Oprah selections next to the cash register at Starbucks? 5mo
CBee @vivastory omg total blast from the past - I didn‘t remember but now I do 😂😁 5mo
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Andrew65
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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.

Tove_Reads Sounds mostly good, but the cover looks boring. 6mo
Andrew65 @Tove_Reads There are better covers out there for this one. Overall I enjoyed reading this one. 6mo
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Andrew65
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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.

mcctrish I read this so many years ago and I remember it was an Oprah‘s pick and I was mad because I loved The Weight of Water so much more 6mo
Andrew65 @mcctrish Sounds ike you didn‘t enjoy this one as much. 6mo
mcctrish I did like it but Weight of Water was on a different level 6mo
lauraisntwilder @mcctrish The Weight of Water is the only Anita Shreve book I've read and I can imagine it would be hard for her other books to live up to that standard! 6mo
mcctrish @lauraisntwilder I was just so mad at Oprah ( and continues to colour my perception of Pilot‘s Wife to this day ) 6mo
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BoleyBooks
She's Come Undone | Wally Lamb
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Tackle the TBR 🤓📚
What are you reading?
#boleybooks #shescomeundone #wallylamb #bookbeast #bookchat #letsread #libby

kspenmoll A library book! 7mo
PatriciaU Read this for a long ago book club. Enjoyed his descriptive writing. He has a new one out in May - The River Is Rising - that I‘m looking forward to reading. 7mo
BoleyBooks @PatriciaU -I‘ll need to add that to my list. 😊📚 7mo
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BoleyBooks @kspenmoll - 🙌📚🎉 7mo
bookaholic1 Such a great book..one of his best 7mo
BoleyBooks @bookaholic1 -I enjoyed it…achieved a full spectrum of emotion. 🤓📚 7mo
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ChrisBohjalian
Midwives: A Novel | Chris Bohjalian
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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.

CBee Congratulations on an excellent book - I loved this one ♥️ 9mo
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Octoberwoman
While I Was Gone | Sue Miller
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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

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MommyWantsToReadHerBook
Vinegar Hill | A. Manette Ansay
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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 ⬇️

MommyWantsToReadHerBook than even my daughter who is 11 turning 12 and I'm quite baffled about whether it's a cultural thing. The children in this book are really treated horribly, emotionally speaking. 10mo
ChaoticMissAdventures I really struggle with books from the 90s feeling awful and dated. Every book written around that time seems to have women treated horribly. 10mo
willaful Ouch! 10mo
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