The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe

October 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Synopsis:
3 young women meet in the typing pool at Fabian Publishing, 1952, hoping for love and finding that life has more to offer than they ever imagined.
Review:
I haven’t done much rereading since starting this blog, mostly thanks to the TBR tsunami that Bookmooch yielded out of a few boxes of discarded books my mom cleaned [...]

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Tags: American Literature

Read With Abandon (Booking Through Thursday)

October 25th, 2007 · 9 Comments

Happy Booking Through Thursday, everyone!

Today’s suggestion is from Cereal Box Reader:
I would enjoy reading a meme about people’s abandoned books. The books that you start but don’t finish say as much about you as the ones you actually read, sometimes because of the books themselves or because of the circumstances that [...]

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Tags: On Reading

Cousins by Rona Jaffe

February 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Synopsis:
Restlessness in her current relationship leads a NYC woman to wonder if her family’s legacy has doomed her to unhappiness.
Popularity: 42% [?]

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Tags: American Literature