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How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
by Bonny Reichert
Superb memoir of food and family (1/14/2025)
Bonny Reichert grew up hearing her Holocaust survivor father telling her "Sweetheart, do you hear me? It's okay. It's over and we survived." But what Ms. Reichert comes to understand - through painful discussions with her father, travel back to Poland, and through themore
Sandwich: A Novel
by Catherine Newman
Funny and nostalgic (11/4/2024)
A fast read about important topics that will resonate if you are a middle aged woman living in her “sandwich” era - balancing growing and grown kids with aging and aged parents, all while being in a long loving and long suffering marriage. It will also resonate if yourmore
The God of the Woods: A Novel
by Liz Moore
Moore has done it again with another fantastic novel (11/4/2024)
This book is 10 out of 10. Moore does her magic with a multi perspective multi decade story of two disappearances separated by about 10 years, the first in the 1960s and the second in the 1970s. Saying anything more about the story gives it away. Best to enter this one coldmore
Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant: How Nannying for the 1% Taught Me about the Myths of Equality, Motherhood, and Upward Mobility in America
by Stephanie Kiser
Compulsive, silly and profound (11/4/2024)
Compulsive. Funny. Profound. As our world gets more divisive, not less, it is critical to read memoirs that offer windows into worlds not our own. Sure Kiser shows us how the ultra ultra wealthy live in NYC as she nannies, with all its liberal values, absurdities and glam.more
Long Island Compromise: A Novel
by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
An outstanding novel from Brodesser-Akner (11/4/2024)
Every now and then a book comes along that is so good that it is also so hard to read. This is one of those books. This book has possibly the best propulsive opening scene I have ever read, followed by one of the hardest chapters dealing with sexual transgressions and drugmore
The Sequel: The Book Series #2
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Sequel is a worth sequel (11/4/2024)
The Sequel is as much fun for voracious readers as The Plot. Sprinkled throughout a solid mystery thriller, Hanff Korelitz slyly winks to the peculiarities of the book business. She saves her sharpest knives for book signings, the idea of sequels, agents and editors, bookmore
I Hope This Finds You Well: A Novel
by Natalie Sue
Surprisingly compelling and moving office novel (11/4/2024)
I am not usually one for office novels (maybe my time as an office drone is so far in the past and so poorly remembered that I don't want to revisit it?) but Natalie Sue takes the office novel to remarkably compelling and captivating new heights. The premise is simple -more
One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother's Story
by Abi Maxwell
Necessary and urgent memoir (11/4/2024)
Abi Maxwell's memoir tells of the heartbreaking experiences of her family in a small town in New Hampshire who were vilified and and ostracized when her daughter transitioned socially to her new name, new pronouns and new identity at a very young age. Maxwell's language ismore
A Reason to See You Again: A Novel
by Jami Attenberg
Superb family drama (11/4/2024)
The Cohen family is unlikable - Frieda is a difficult, and often cruel, mother to her daughters Nancy (the pretty one) and Shelley (the smart one). Neither daughter cares much for their mother, and all can go months without speaking. And yet. Attenberg skillfully buildsmore
Like Mother, Like Mother: A Novel
by Susan Rieger
Another winner from Rieger (11/4/2024)
There is no other way to say it - I simply adored this book. It hit all my sweet spots - a mother daughter dilemma (several!), a mystery at the novel's core, strong Jewish characters (and how they interact with characters of several different faiths in this fraught andmore
Long Island Compromise: A Novel
by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
An important novel that may be divisive but will definitely be talked about (6/19/2024)
Every now and then a book comes along that is so good that it is also so hard to read. This is one of those books. This book has possibly the best propulsive opening scene I have ever read, followed by one of the hardest chapters dealing with sexual transgressions and drugmore
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