Jennifer’s Comments (group member since Dec 03, 2021)

Jennifer’s comments from the On The Same Page group.

That was quick, Denise! Glad you enjoyed the book.

That's crazy, Beth.

I just got mine this morning.

Wow…must be a popular book!

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.

Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.

Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?

From the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.

People We Meet on Vacation

Emily Henry

Holly Black makes her adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies.

In Charlie Hall’s world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic preferences—but also to increase power and influence. You can alter someone’s feelings—and memories—but manipulating shadows has a cost, with the potential to take hours or days from your life. Your shadow holds all the parts of you that you want to keep hidden—a second self, standing just to your left, walking behind you into lit rooms. And sometimes, it has a life of its own.

Charlie is a low-level con artist, working as a bartender while trying to distance herself from the powerful and dangerous underground world of shadow trading. She gets by doing odd jobs for her patrons and the naive new money in her town at the edge of the Berkshires. But when a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie’s present life is thrown into chaos, and her future seems at best, unclear—and at worst, non-existent. Determined to survive, Charlie throws herself into a maelstrom of secrets and murder, setting her against a cast of doppelgängers, mercurial billionaires, shadow thieves, and her own sister—all desperate to control the magic of the shadows.


Book of Night
Holly Black

@Peak -- so glad you liked it!
@Beth -- I wouldn't have thought it would be that hard to get either!

I read that series recently, Denise, and liked it way better than I expected to. Glad for the heads-up about the film-- I need to see it. Thanks!

@Lance: I read overnight last night. Wow. Just..wow. He weaves four storyline/timelines together pretty seamlessly and before I knew it I was riveted by a topic that in general I'm not all that interested in. I think you should read it!

Eileen wrote: "I finished 4 stars"

I read that years ago, Eileen. I used to work for a magazine affiliated with a non-profit that handles the 9-1-1 industry, and our keynote speaker one year was John Walsh. I vividly remember when Adam disappeared -- we were living in Florida and my parents' best friends had a kid named Adam who was just Adam Walsh's age -- and the things John and his wife did as a result of that tragedy are admirable.

Denise wrote: "Finished , gave it 4 stars."

Yes, but did you actually learn how to love your neighbor? LOLOL

Angela wrote: "Kdbrand wrote: "Angela wrote: "One for me , please.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list..."

Angela, I'm picking ..."

I couldn't agree more!

I haven't read any Tami Hoag. I'd like to but every time I think about getting into another prolific author that I'm afraid I'd like, I shudder about my TBR!

Sure! I read a lot of NF too -- probably ten percent of my reading. Glad to have a fellow NF traveler here!

Wow I really need to give Monkeewrench a go. You just reminded me.

I LOVE Fannie Flagg!! Thank you.

Sounds like a good read.

Well, I saw where you picked up a couple of Angell's books on PIFM or I'd have picked him in light of recent events. But I've decided to overload your reading plate for the month and pick Ken Dryden instead. LOL

Thanks for the heads-up, Joy.

Lance wrote: "Am I too late? I had two authors yesterday and am still searching for the third. If too late, I’ll save them for next month"

Load them up and I'll pick for you. :). I wasn't getting notifications on this thread: sorry I took so long to answer you!