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Lisa’s 2019 Year in Books
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After sixteen books, I don't wait on inspiration. I hunt it down, drag it to my desk, and wrestle it to the ground. Then I write. ;)
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The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship
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2011
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21 editions
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One Good Friend Deserves Another
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2012
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8 editions
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Random Acts of Kindness
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2014
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11 editions
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Friendship Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
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2013
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9 editions
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Senseless Acts of Beauty
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2015
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2 editions
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Bake, Love, Write: 105 Authors Share Dessert Recipes and Advice on Love and Writing
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2014
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SENSELESS ACTS OF BEAUTY
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updated May 13, 2015 06:38PM
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Tess has a secret: For fifteen years she has been furtively following the life of the daughter she gave up as an infant for adoption. But when Sadie runs away from home determined to find her birth mother, Tess has no choice but to hunt down the desperate girl in the one place she dreads—Pine Lake, where a terrible, buried secret threatens to destroy them both.
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
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updated May 13, 2015 06:37PM
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With the remnants of her past rattling in the trunk of her Chevy, Jenna Elliott abandons her Seattle home determined to start life anew. Her journey compels her to the door of two friends: Claire, an ex-Buddhist nun and cancer survivor, eager to escape her overbearing family for what may be her last chance to fulfill a dream; and Nicole, a professional Life Coach who can’t even control her own teenage son. But what starts out as an impulsive road trip soon becomes an inexorable journey to their past, as the women grapple with who they were, who they are, and the strange twists that have now set them on the road to their hometown of Pine Lake. There, Jenna discovers that her random act of kindness has rippled out into the world like a stone dropped into a deep pond, coming back to rock her life—and those of her friends—in ways they never expected.
Friendship Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
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updated May 13, 2015 06:35PM
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Lenny left his wife, Monique, a bucket list of things they'd dreamed of doing together before cancer took his life. For four years, she ignored it, too busy raising their daughter to consider the painful task of resurrecting shattered dreams. But when her next-door neighbor, Judy, starts a slow slide into a personal crisis, and another friend, Becky, receives shocking news about her future, Monique realizes that Lenny's legacy could be a gift to three women in desperate need of a new perspective. Whisking away her friends on adventures from London to Paris, from Monaco to Milan, she is determined to follow the bucket list to the letter--until one eventful evening knocks the three friends off the beaten path. Caught up in adventures of their own making, they begin to understand: Sometimes getting lost is the only way to find what you're looking for.
One Good Friend Deserves Another
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updated May 13, 2015 06:33PM
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Dhara, Kelly, Marta and Wendy have been the closest of friends since college, so close, that after a series of romantic disasters, they bond together to create rules of relationships meant to keep their hearts safe. Those rules seemed to have worked, until Marta discovers that her hot boyfriend is married, Kelly begins a risky love affair, Wendy inches closer to a pre-marital infidelity, and, most shocking of all, Indian-American Dhara suddenly agrees to an arranged marriage. As old relationships crumble and dangerous new ones emerge, each women must decide how much she’d risk—for love, for happiness, and most importantly, for each another.
The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship
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updated Sep 15, 2010 01:29PM
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When three women each receive a letter from a dying friend, old loyalties drive them to fulfill her last wishes. But those last wishes turn out to be world-rocking tasks that threaten to upend their ordinary lives. With a career at risk, a marriage in jeopardy, and a heart in terrible danger of breaking, these three women discover an essential truth: The only thing that can save them is friendship.
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| An interesting look at the grieving process. As usual, Joan Didion comes up with some amazing imagery, but I found her in some ways too detached, too cold. . . particularly when it came to her daughter's health issues. Her uber-literary way of handli ...more | |
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| I'm still reeling, having just finished Native Son. Why the heck wasn't I forced to read this in high school or college? It may take months to collect my thoughts. What a gripping, emotionally dense, deeply provocative story. It's a mind-bending nove ...more | |
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Hey Kama I just finished BENEATH THE SCARLET SKY, a historical novel based on the true experiences of a young Italian man who lived in and around Mila
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“there's this thing about rainbows. they're perfect from afar. but when you get real close to them, they just disappear.”
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“We rush, rush, rush to get things done, and in the process, our lives rush past us.
Life isn't supposed to rush past you like that. You're supposed to live it. Moment by moment. Mile by mile. Day by day.”
― Random Acts of Kindness
Life isn't supposed to rush past you like that. You're supposed to live it. Moment by moment. Mile by mile. Day by day.”
― Random Acts of Kindness
“Any fool could see that you're at the reeling end of a long, strong rope - soon enough, It'll be tugging you back.”
― The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship
― The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship
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Thanks for your friendship. Nice to see you here. :^)
