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What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty Plot: “Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over — she’s getting divorced, she has […]

Book Reviews

Books I Read in August and Whether or Not You Should Read Them

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl Plot: “Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret […]

Book Reviews

Books I Read in July and Whether or Not You Should Read Them.

The Passion of Mary-Margaret by Lisa Samson Plot: When Mary-Margaret Fischer met Jude Keller, the lighthouse keeper’s son, she was studying at a convent school on a small island off Chesapeake Bay. Destined for a life as a religious sister, she nevertheless felt a pull toward Jude–gorgeous, rebellious, promiscuous Jude. But Jude, driven by demons no […]

Book Reviews

Books I Read in June and Whether or Not You Should Read Them.

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