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The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer: book review and book club menu
Clover has always been the one left behind. Her kindergarten teacher passed away in front of her in the middle of a dramatic reading of Peter Rabbit, her parents died during their travels when she was six, and her beloved grandfather passed away soon after Clover graduated from college. Clover is afraid of being left…
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Seven Days in June by Tia Williams: Book Review & Book Club Menu
2004: Genevieve Mercier lives a nomadic existence due to her free spirited mother, changing schools every time her mother changes boyfriends. Shane Hall has bounced around the foster care system his entire childhood and is on the verge of aging out. Shane and Genevieve meet as high school seniors on Genevieve’s first day at school.…
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The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston: Book Review and Book Club Menu
Florence Day has inherited two things from her undertaker father: an unwavering belief in romantic love and the ability to see ghosts. At thirteen, she solves a local murder with the assistance of a ghost, and when her gift becomes public knowledge, she is bullied by her peers. At eighteen, she leaves the family and…
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Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney: book review & book club menu
Beatrice Darker, known as Nana to her family, is the matriarch of the Darker clan. She is a successful children’s author and illustrator. Her family has depended on her for babysitting services and to stay financially afloat. While Nana is practical in most things, a fortune teller once told her she would die at the…
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Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune: book review and book club menu
Wallace Price’s death came at the least convenient of times. As a busy lawyer, he had work to do and cases to win and then he found himself at his own funeral as a ghost, watching his colleagues and his ex-wife all talk about what an asshole he was. While viewing his funeral, Wallace is…
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The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn: Book Review and Book Club Menu
The Diamond Eye is a novel about the real life Soviet sniper, Lyudmila (Mila) Pavlichenko. When we first meet Mila, she is in her early twenties, raising her young son with the help of her parents. After a scene where Mila’s estranged husband takes their 5-year-old son without her knowledge and teaches him to shoot…
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Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead: Book Review and Book Club Menu
“Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked . . .” This is how Colson Whitehead introduces us to his protagonist, Ray Carney. Ray is a young husband, father, and businessman in Harlem. His father was one of the most notorious criminals in Harlem, but Ray sought to distance himself from that…
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Taste by Stanley Tucci: Book Review and Book Club Menu
Stanley Tucci is known for starring in food-centered films like Big Night and Julie and Julia. In Taste, he writes about how his love of food has shaped his relationships and career. His writing style is informal and personal, and I read the entire book with Tucci’s voice in my head. If you have watched…
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Matrix by Lauren Groff: book review and book club menu
Seventeen-year-old Marie does not meet medieval expectations of femininity. Declared too tall and too plain for marriage, she is banished from Eleanor of Aquitane’s court and sent to a failing abbey, where the nuns are dying of starvation. The abbess is kind but ineffective as a leader. Initially acting as prioress, Marie slowly gains more…
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Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain (YA): Book Review and Book Club Menu
Seventeen years ago in the tiny Lousiana island of La Cachette, ten children were born in a single summer. They call themselves the Summer Children. La Cachette is an island so isolated there is no cell service or internet access. The residents make their living from the tourist trade, marketing themselves as the Psychic Capital…
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