Jennifer S. Brown
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Modern Girls
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2016
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10 editions
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The Whisper Sister
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2024
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5 editions
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| There's no doubt that this is a powerful novel, but it's also unrelenting about three women whose lives intersect with a single apartment building. Olivia lives there with her abusive boyfriend, Max. Horia is an undocumented worker acting as the buil ...more | |
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| This memoir about a woman trapped in marriage by abuse and her patriarchal Christian upbringing shows another side to the Instagrammed "trad wife" phenomenon. Levings was raised believe she needed to submit to her husband. She lives much of the homes ...more | |
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| Wow! It took me a bit to get into this novel, but once I did, I was absolutely hooked. Brooks-Dalton is a master of using description to reinforce a mood. The main character, Ember, is a doozy--so absorbed in her own world that she mistreats those ar ...more | |
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| Novel takes place over a single day in a restaurant, a day in which John Grisham has a reservation and also the day that twenty-two steaks were stolen. Each chapter is told from a different character's POV, which worked but made it a little disjointe ...more | |
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| An interesting collection of linked short stories, the first starting in the year 2030 and each moving ahead by years then millennia (and back again in a way). Stories about plague and climate crisis but more about the way the world responds rather t ...more | |
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| I picked this up while in England and it was kismet because some of the book takes place in areas I was visiting. Another winner filled with unlikable characters (a good thing). Revenge thriller. Such a fun read. | |
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| Beautiful writing but a meandering story. Very quiet. Not much happens. | |
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| The structure of this book alone makes it this an intriguing read. The book's POV shifts from Violet, Marigold, and their mother, Alice, who is an artist. The story takes place at a retrospective of Alice's work (Alice who has passed away). Each sect ...more | |
“It was possible, I found, to both mourn a loss and yet be grateful it happened.”
― Modern Girls
― Modern Girls
“slipped away fast, and so far I had nothing to show for it except a bigger debt”
― The Whisper Sister
― The Whisper Sister
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“In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.”
― The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
― The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
“People think they have to physically die before going to heaven or starting new lives, depending on their religions. The truth is that you can start a new life anytime you choose, as easily as waking from a dream.”
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― Folly Cove
“It seems like there is no way to just write your story without becoming someone's poster child. You are not just your own voice, your own history--rather you carry the expectations of both extremes.”
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― Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home
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