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White Ivy
by Susie Yang
I came to detest Ivy. (5/6/2021)
WHITE IVY begins when Ivy is a child. She is Chinese but wants to be white and hang out with the white crowd at school. When she spends one summer in China, at first with rich relatives, she develops a high opinion of herself and a hankering for the rich life. Back in themore
The Family Upstairs
by Lisa Jewell
Absorbing Page Turner (5/6/2021)
Of the five Lisa Jewell novels I have read, I think THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS is probably my favorite. Not that it’s a nice story. You could definitely say it is sickening. But it is so absorbing and quite a page turner.

Libby learns that she has inherited a home worth severalmore
The Paris Library
by Janet Skeslien Charles
Not recommended for adults (5/6/2021)
I read THE PARIS LIBRARY because it is historical fiction, but I thought it would be written for an adult. It seemed, however, to be a lower reading level, closer to what I would have liked when I was in the eighth or ninth grade.

Some chapters of this book are about 1939more
The Plot
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Boring, boring, boring (4/28/2021)
If you are a writer or work in the publishing industry, THE PLOT is for you. As far as I can tell, though, this book is not for anyone else. It bored me. I am sure it will bore most people, maybe even writers and those who work in the publishing industry.

Jake has written amore
The Exiles
by Christina Baker Kline
Such a nice, if somewhat predictable, story (10/29/2020)
While many people will feel THE EXILES is a five-star book and while I would have felt the same several years ago, my taste has evolved. I didn’t love it. I liked it, but I don’t have the heart to give it just three stars. It was such a nice, if somewhat predictable, story.

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The Snow Child: A Novel
by Eowyn Ivey
retelling of a Russian fairy tale (1/10/2013)
THE SNOW CHILD by Eowyn Ivey is simply a retelling of a Russian fairy tale. It doesn’t live up to the many reviews of it that I read. The book is full of unanswered questions.
Gone Girl: A Novel
by Gillian Flynn
The end should be rewritten. (1/9/2013)
Right up to the second-from-last page GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn should be rated 5. Every page of the book builds more and more tension. It really is the best kind of book: unputdownable.

But the end: Other reviewers have said that it comes as a surprise. True. But I didn'tmore
When She Woke: A Novel
by Hillary Jordan
pleasant surprise (1/9/2013)
WHEN SHE WOKE by Hillary Jordan was a pleasant surprise for me. From what I had heard, I had expected a futuristic book about a world where abortion was a crime punishable by turning the criminal’s skin red. Yes, there’s that. But there’s so much more to it. And Jordan’smore
City of Women: A Novel
by David R. Gillham
a disappointment (1/9/2013)
CITY OF WOMEN was a disappointment. The dialog and many of the situations are just plain corny. The story is loaded with convenient coincidences. The woman who helps hide Jews in World War II Berlin is, at the same time, a tramp who can't get enough sex, then pretends to bemore

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