Category: Book Clubs
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Review: COCOA BEACH by Beatriz Williams
This was the inaugural pick for the Salt Water Reads Book Club back in July and it was the PERFECT choice! Summary: Burdened by a dark family secret, Virginia flees her oppressive home in New York City for the battlefields of World War I in France. She becomes an ambulance driver for the Red Cross…
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Review: FIERCE KINGDOM by Gin Phillips
This was my August Book of the Month pick. Three hours of being in panic mode. Summary: The zoo is nearly empty as Joan and her four-year-old son, Lincoln soak up the last few moments of playtime. They are happy and everything seems perfect. She hustles to leave as it is almost closing time, but…
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Review: CONFESSIONS by Kanae Minato
This was Criminally Good Book Club’s August pick and let me just say… WOAH. Summary: Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old Manami. Now, following Manami’s tragic death that occurred on the middle school grounds where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation. But first she has…
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Review: GOOD ME BAD ME by Ali Land
This was Instagram’s Criminally Good Book Club’s pick for July and it did not disappoint!! New name. New family. Shiny. New. Me. Summary: Milly’s mother is a serial killer. Though Milly loves her mother, the only way to make her stop is to turn her in to the police. Milly is given a fresh start:…
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Book Club Favs
I’ve recently discovered how much I love book clubs. I don’t have many local friends that love to read or have the time, so it never occurred to me to be a part of one. Since I joined Instagram, I’ve joined six book clubs and two buddy reads – it’s SO MUCH FUN!! I’m the…
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Review: DEAD WOMAN WALKING by Sharon Bolton
Thank you so much to Minotaur Books for providing a free advance copy in exchange for my honest review. Summary: Just before dawn in the hills near the Scottish border, a man murders a young woman. At the same time, a hot-air balloon crashes out of the sky. There’s just one survivor. She’s seen the…
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Review: SEX AND RAGE by Eve Babitz
“The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was only a garden.” Summary: We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles. She’s a beach bum, a part-time painter of surfboards, sun-kissed and beautiful. Jacaranda has an on-again, off-again relationship with a married man…
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Review: THE ALICE NETWORK by Kate Quinn
“Hope was such a painful thing, far more painful than rage.” Summary: 1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She’s also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared…
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Review: TOUCH by Courtney Maum
Summary: Sloane Jacobsen is one of the world’s most powerful trend forecasters (she was the foreseer of “the swipe”), and global fashion, lifestyle, and tech companies pay to hear her opinions about the future. Her recent forecasts on the family are unwavering: the world is over-populated, and with unemployment, college costs, and food prices all…