Tag Archives: Lauren

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Posted on June 30, 2023 by bseat

Feel good books are a rare find! Especially ones that are well written and explore the darker side of life while not losing that spark of hope in humanity. Garmus, however does that and more in this lovely and lively … Continue reading →

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The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

Posted on June 23, 2023 by bseat

I loved watching True Blood on TV. It had all the things I loved- romance, thrills, chills and great dialogue! There was also a sense that even has the plot lines got more and more outrageous, the show runners would often … Continue reading →

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The Verifiers by Jane Pek

Posted on June 2, 2023 by bseat

When you are on a dating app, how do you know that the “person” you are talking to or matched with is an actual person rather than a bot that helps increase the match numbers for the dating site?  Enter … Continue reading →

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City Of Friends by Joanna Trollope

Posted on May 26, 2023 by bseat

Whenever I want an immersive compelling story about friendship or marriage, I turn to Joanna Trollope. (Yes, she is related to the famous English novelist, Anthony Trollope, who wrote a travel book about his visit to the Untied States during … Continue reading →

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A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

Posted on May 12, 2023 by bseat

El Higgins is the last person you would think would be a hero. Orion Lake is much more the hero type. Bold and decisive, Orion wants to save everyone at School of the Wind University, a school of magical arts. … Continue reading →

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The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain

Posted on April 28, 2023 by bseat

What if at 65 years old you decided to share with the world something about yourself that you had kept secret all your life? Would it change your life, or would it completely destroy it? This is the quandary that … Continue reading →

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It Ends With Us, It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover

Posted on April 21, 2023 by bseat

I have to confess that I missed all the hype about these books and about Colleen Hoover. She is evidently quite a phenomenon, and these books have been on several best seller lists for quite some time. Luckily, just before … Continue reading →

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Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Posted on April 14, 2023 by bseat

It is not often that both USA Today and NPR recommend the same book, but this one was!! USA Today described it this way: “Sutanto brilliantly infuses comedy and culture into the unpredictable rom-com/murder mystery mashup as Meddy navigates familial duty, possible … Continue reading →

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Babel:Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R.F. Kuang

Posted on March 31, 2023 by bseat

I have mentioned previously how much I enjoy books about translation and translators, since that was my work for many years. So when I heard that Kuang, who wrote a wonderful Scifi/fantasy series called The Poppy Wars, had released a … Continue reading →

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Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra

Posted on March 10, 2023 by bseat

This was a fascinating and poignant book about the infancy of the movie industry, the plight of immigrants before and during WWII, and what women have had to do in order to succeed in a man’s world. Marra, who wrote one … Continue reading →

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