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FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES by Min Jin Lee
Tonight,I finally finished Free Food for Millionaires, by Min Jin Lee. It only took me two months, reading mostly in bed before falling asleep (I am embarrassed to admit how slowly I make it through...
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BITTER SWEETS by Roopa Farooki
I’ve read a few reviews lately of Bitter Sweets, by Roopa Farooki, which is about a Pakestani-Bangladeshi woman named Shona and her family. Here’s a synopsis from the Literary Safari blog: "The...
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THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME by Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon, is a story told through the eyes of Christopher Boone, a teenager with autism who discovers his neighbor's dog dead one evening. He...
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THE FORGOTTEN WALTZ by Anne Enright
I really enjoyed The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright. I haven’t read her earlier book The Gathering, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2007, but I picked up The Forgotten Waltz at BEA – in part because...
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Book Haul from The Strand
I was in NY for business yesterday, and was in the neighborhood of The Strand bookstore. I decided to stop in for a quick visit, armed with my Goodreads To-Read list. Even though I know this probably...
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Six Furlough Fiction Reads
I live in DC, and I have a lot of friends who are furloughed thanks to the federal budget impasse. I am sure that some of you guys are getting restless at home with all the unexpected downtime. (Once...
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I’ve been interested for a while in the effect that social media is having on fiction writing. Today’s modern adult spends a lot of his or her day on devices, communicating with others via short bursts...
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Battle of the (Middle Grade) Books
Tomorrow is the Battle of the Books competition in my daughters’ fourth grade class. Battle of the Books is a 10-week reading and comprehension competition in which teams of fourth graders read the...
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SKIPPING A BEAT by Sarah Pekkanen
Skipping a Beat by Sarah Pekkanen has an interesting premise: Michael, a man in his 30s who has made millions of dollars after starting his own company, survives a heart attack and realizes that he...
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BEA 2014 Wrap-Up
I spent three glorious days in NY last week for Book Expo America 2014 (BEA). This year, I focused on learning about new books (mostly fiction) at a number of panels held over the course of Thursday...
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SO MUCH A PART OF YOU by Polly Dugan
This almost never happens here on EDIWTB, where I am not particularly organized and rarely plan ahead, but I actually finished a book the night before it came out! Shocking! The book is So Much A Part...
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CUTTING TEETH by Julia Fierro
Oh, the delicious sendup of Brooklyn parenting that takes place in Cutting Teeth by Julia Fierro! Take five families from the same playgroup, send them to a beach house on Long Island for a weekend,...
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COUPLE MECHANICS by Nelly Alard
The first book I picked up after BEA was an ARC I got at the blogger-publicist speed dating event on the last day of the conference. It’s not on sale until January 2016, which doesn’t make it the best...
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Summer Reading: A Crowdsourced Recommendation List
Summer is already a few weeks in, so I am a little behind, but here is a list of summer reading suggestions collected from my Facebook friends and people who follow the EDIWTB Facebook page. There’s a...
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THE SWEETHEART DEAL by Polly Dugan
[First, a note – somewhere along the way, I stopped including the Depressing-o-Meter in my reviews. I miss it. I think I am going to add it back in. For the newbies, it measures, on a scale of 1 to 10,...
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MOVIE STAR BY LIZZIE PEPPER by Hilary Liftin
I have had the pleasure of knowing author Hilary Liftin for a long time. We went to school together here in DC from 4th-12th grade and have stayed in touch over the years since then. I’ve always known...
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A WINDOW OPENS by Elisabeth Egan
This is what I learned about Elisabeth Egan’s A Window Opens at a BEA Hot Fall Fiction panel: it’s about a middle-aged mother of three who loves books and has to juggle the competing demands of work...
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SUMMERLONG by Dean Bakopoulus
I’ve seen Summerlong by Dean Bakopoulos on many 2015 summer book lists – usually enjoying glowing reviews – and it was positively reviewed by a few sources I trust (Book Chatter and Ron Charles), so I...
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THE LAST SEPTEMBER by Nina de Gramont
The Last September by Nina de Gramont was one of my favorite reads of the summer. It’s hard to describe – it’s about the demise of a passionate marriage, but it’s also a suspenseful murder mystery....
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FATES AND FURIES by Lauren Groff
I finally made it through the audio (14 hours) of Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff, and I’m still processing the book. It’s one of those books where the less you know about it going in, the better, but...
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