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Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself...
MY REVIEW - ONE STAR, THUMBS DOWN
on a sunny morning in April, Dr. Akeret got in his van and set off to visit his most memorable former patients—a journey "in search of story endings." And what remarkable stories they are...
MY REVIEW - 2 STARS, NEUTRAL THUMB
MY REVIEW - 5 STARS, THUMBS UP
MY REVIEW - 4 STARS, THUMBS UP
MY REVIEW....WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL WE HAVE DISCUSSED IT IN BOOK CLUB...SO TBD....
But you can also see our past reads and our reviews here:
She's Come Undone (Goodreads review)
by Wally Lamb
In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. 
Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself...
MY REVIEW - ONE STAR, THUMBS DOWN
House Rules (Goodreads Review)
by Jodi Picoult
When your son can’t look you in the eye . . . does that mean he’s guilty? Jacob Hunt is a teen with Asperger’s syndrome. He’s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, though he is brilliant in many ways. But he has a special focus on one subject—forensic analysis. A police scanner in his room clues him in to crime scenes, and he’s always showing...MY REVIEW - 5 STARS, THUMBS UP
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Goodreads Review)
“ I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native...
MY REVIEW - 4 STARS, THUMBS UP
Tales from a Traveling Couch: A Psychotherapist Revisits His Most Memorable Patients (Goodreads Review)
So,on a sunny morning in April, Dr. Akeret got in his van and set off to visit his most memorable former patients—a journey "in search of story endings." And what remarkable stories they are...
MY REVIEW - 2 STARS, NEUTRAL THUMB
Water for Elephants (Goodreads Review)
by Sara Gruen
Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of life, and its own way of death. The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both salvation and a living hell." Jacob was there because his luck had run out - orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on this locomotive "ship of fools." It was the early part of the Great Depression, and everyone in this third-rate circus was lucky to have any job at all. Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, was there because she fell in love with the wrong man, a handsome circus boss with a wide mean streak. And Rosie the elephant was there because she was the great gray hope, the new act that was going to be the salvation of the circus; the only problem was, Rosie didn't have an act - in fact, she couldn't even follow instructions. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one of love and trust, and ultimately, it was their only hope for survival.MY REVIEW - 5 STARS, THUMBS UP
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Goodreads Review)
In the opening pages of Jamie Ford's stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol.MY REVIEW - 4 STARS, THUMBS UP
The Art of Racing in the Rain (Goodreads Review)
Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he...MY REVIEW....WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL WE HAVE DISCUSSED IT IN BOOK CLUB...SO TBD....
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