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November 2017 - Sing, Unburied, Sing
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last updated Nov 15, 2017 08:14AM
October 2017 - Little Fires Everywhere
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4.5 stars
Not your typical "angst in the suburbs" book. Ng peels back the layers on these characters and gives the reader much to ponder. A great choice for book clubs! ...more
Not your typical "angst in the suburbs" book. Ng peels back the layers on these characters and gives the reader much to ponder. A great choice for book clubs! ...more
When Mia Warren, a struggling artist, and her teenaged daughter Pearl move into a Shaker Heights rental owned by the elite Richardson family they have no idea how deeply their lives will become enmeshed. When everyone gets involved in a highly disputed biracial adoption by friends of the Richardson family old secrets are revealed leaving the lives of these two families forever changed. This book (the second bestseller) written by Celeste Ng is a nominee for best fiction on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ 2017. Ng's w
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As with her debut novel, this story begins with the end, a tragic family event. This time, a family’s house is burnt to the ground, little fires throughout deliberately set by the youngest teenaged daughter. The question is never who did it, but why did it happen. At the heart of this story are several complicated mother-daughter relationships. On the surface, this novel explores the question of what makes for motherhood: biology? Legal decree? Daily care and guidance? Love of the parent? Of the
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This book was so good! I would actually give it 4.5 stars! There were some predictable moments, but that was fine..well written plot..lots of drama between these families! Shaker Heights is a hot mess! 😂🤣 I would definitely recommend!
This book was excellent!! Quite the page turner and I could not, could not, put it down!! Great read!!!
This was a very slow start book. It was almost painful getting there. Once it grew into a really interesting book, it completely sucked you in. There were so many stories running alongside each other, it commanded your full attention. But then to my disappointment, the ending felt a little unresolved for me. Maybe that was the point of this book? To leave the loose ends unresolved. But I felt that even to artfully leave stories without a resolve, it could have been a little longer in the act of
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The richness and depth of this book is unreal.
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I originally gave this book 4 stars, but after reading Everything I Never Told You, I’m bumping it down to 3.5. I liked it and it was definitely a page-turning, but I wanted more from the characters and definitely more from the ending.
Aug 18, 2017
Sandra
marked it as to-read
Oct 16, 2017
Denise
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Jan 01, 2018
Laura
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Aug 02, 2018
Karen Coles (Romine)
marked it as to-read
