Tag Archives: Lauren

The Expats by Chris Pavone

Posted on June 27, 2014 by bseat

Kate Moore needs to quit her job. Her husband, Dexter, has just signed a very lucrative contract to be a financial consultant for a bank in Luxembourg, so not only does Kate need to quite her job she needs to … Continue reading →

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How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid

Posted on June 13, 2014 by bseat

“Look, unless you’re writing one, a self-help book is an oxymoron. You read a self-help book so someone who isn’t yourself can help you, that someone being the author…None of the foregoing means that self-help books are useless. On the … Continue reading →

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A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Posted on June 6, 2014 by bseat

On a remote island in Canada, Ruth, a novelist who has been struggling with ennui and writer’s block, comes across a small package in the surf on the beach near her home. When she unwraps the package she finds a … Continue reading →

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Chance by Kem Nunn

Posted on May 30, 2014 by bseat

Dr. Eldon Chance is a forensic neuropsychiatrist working in LA, whose life, like many of his client’s lives, is slowly unraveling.  First there is his divorce and the money that will cost, then his daughter’s troubles at school and finally … Continue reading →

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Perfect by Rachel Joyce

Posted on May 16, 2014 by bseat

Bryan Hemmings knew that time was going to slip at some point. It had been in the news that they were going to adjust it by a few seconds, a perfectly logical thing to do, or so Bryan’s friend James … Continue reading →

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The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

Posted on May 9, 2014 by bseat

In 72 CE, 900 Jews sought refuge on the top of an ancient Herodian fort called Masada to escape from Roman persecution and the desecration of their temple in Jerusalem.  In the ensuing months these refugees would hold out against … Continue reading →

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Divergent, Insurgent and Allegiant by Veronica Roth

Posted on March 21, 2014 by bseat

In a post apocalyptic world, Beatrice Prior has known only a world divided by factions. Her family is part of the Abnegation faction, a selfless group that puts others before themselves and where service to others is the highest goal. … Continue reading →

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A Map of Time by Felix Palma, Translated by Nick Caistor

Posted on February 28, 2014 by bseat

Set in London in 1888, this novel tells three intertwined stories: one about the loss suffered by someone who loved one of Jack the Ripper’s victims; another about a young woman who wants to escape to the future where she can … Continue reading →

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A True Novel by Minae Mizumura, Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter

Posted on February 14, 2014 by bseat

How do I describe this novel? It haunts me in ways that I find hard to articulate and even understand.  I picked this book up first, because it was about postwar Japan and secondly, it was about star crossed lovers-a … Continue reading →

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The River of No Return by Bee Ridgeway

Posted on January 24, 2014 by bseat

Lord Nick Falcott an English aristocrat of the nineteenth century wakes up in the twenty-first century in a hospital bed surrounded by people he doesn’t know.  The last thing he remembers is fighting in Wellington’s army in Salamanca, knowing that … Continue reading →

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