Lily is a hapless, likable artist who has no idea how to function in the real world--and her best friend Renee, a successful attorney, never lets her forget it. The girls met in art school, but Lily stayed the course, while Renee married Lily's ex-boyfriend (whom she was still in love with at the ...
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Time and Again, Jack Finney
I picked this one up because apparently Stephen King said it was THE quintessential book on time travel... and in a literary fiction sort of way, I can see that. Most time travel books are fast and furious on plot and adventure, but not this one. It's extremely plodding and methodical. I want to say ...
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You Belong With Me, Beth Moran
I love Beth Moran's books generally, but I wonder if she ever gets tired of writing variations on a theme. The characters and scenarios are different, somewhat, but the basic tropes are always there. I think this is the first one of hers I wouldn't give five stars, perhaps because I wasn't listening ...
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Supernatural, Michael Heiser
This was so good, I listened once, and am reading it again on Kindle so I can highlight. I hadn't even realized that "The Unseen Realm" had multiple books in the series. I'm at present doing a study through the notes from "The Unseen Realm," which I assume was the first in the series, to ...
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When Light Breaks, Patti Callahan
This was a sweet, predictable love story with some characterization issues that I found irritating, and plot devices that felt forced.
Kara Larson's mother died when she was young, and it destroyed her family. Her father essentially withdrew from the world and stopped being a father to his three ...
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The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris, Jenny Colgan
Jenny Colgan's books fit into a strange genre, I think... they're obviously meant to be warm and cozy, given the titles, and they are. But the people who gravitate towards those sorts of books probably don't want the language and the sex and the political content (I wouldn't have thought anyway), ...
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Daisy Jones and the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid
I might have approached this story backwards, by watching the miniseries first, and then reading the book (because I loved the miniseries so much). It's not my usual fare for sure, but the characters were so compelling that I took notes on them (I have a file for favorite characters I encounter in ...
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Leonardo da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson
I've found that I can only listen to biographies, not sit and read them--especially if they're enormous tomes like this one was. But Isaacson did a terrific job "dramatizing" da Vinci's life, such that I followed him like a main character, and felt like I knew him. Da Vinci was of course brilliant, ...
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Home Again, Kristin Hannah
This is the first Kristin Hannah book I've ever read, and I feel like it was likely one of the first she wrote--she's obviously incredibly prolific, but this one didn't feel polished in terms of the plot, or the characters. It was entertaining enough that I finished it, but I also complained to my ...
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The Never Paradox, T Ellery Hodges
I thought the first book in this series was terrific--there were shades of of Spider-Man (more than other superheroes, I guess because Jonathan Tibbs was such a nerd originally), and Superman in the sense that Tibbs fights intergalactic challengers (the Ferox), but whenever Tibbs encounters a ferox ...
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