Tag Archives: Sharon

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

Posted on November 28, 2014 by bseat

When I was about 6 years old and living in Japan, I went on an outing to the zoo with people from my church. We lived far outside of Tokyo, up in the mountains and there were few foreigners in … Continue reading →

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Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates

Posted on November 7, 2014 by bseat

Early in the morning, Arlette fearfully wakes up her husband Zeno Mayfield and tells him that their daughter, Cressida, never came home. Her bed was not slept in and Juliet, her older sister, never heard her from her the night … Continue reading →

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Needful Things by Stephen King

Posted on October 31, 2014 by bseat

Stephen King, known as the master of horror, is truly masterful at scaring people!  His secret is that he takes ordinary, everyday things and turns them into things of nightmares-like a car in Christine, or a dog in Cujo, changing … Continue reading →

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After I’m Gone by Laura Lippman

Posted on October 24, 2014 by bseat

What happens when someone disappears; here one day and gone the next without an explanation or a “good bye?” What happens to the people who are left behind?  Exploring these questions, Lippman deftly brings to light the lives of five … Continue reading →

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Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarity

Posted on October 17, 2014 by bseat

From the author of The Husband’s Secret, comes another compelling story about everyday domestic life in a suburb outside of Sydney, Australia. Without wasting any time, Moriarity plunges us into the complicated lives of this small town by letting us … Continue reading →

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You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Posted on October 10, 2014 by bseat

Grace Reinhardt Sachs and her husband Jonathan are living the New York life.  Grace is a well known therapist and author of several books and Jonathan is an oncologist at Sloan Kettering Hospital. Their son, Henry is a fourth grader … Continue reading →

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The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K Rowling)

Posted on October 3, 2014 by bseat

Cormoran Strike is a bit startled by the insistent and distracted  woman who asks him to find her novelist husband, Owen Quine, who has been missing for 10 days. Leonora Quine is quite sure that he is at some literary … Continue reading →

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Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldman

Posted on September 26, 2014 by bseat

One of the last things her grandfather did was give Natalie a necklace and ask her to find the owner and return it.  He had acquired the rather remarkable necklace with the peacock design during the war in 1945 and … Continue reading →

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Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch and translated by Sam Garrett

Posted on September 19, 2014 by bseat

Dutch novelist, Herman Koch, who memorably explored the dark recesses of a parent’s love for their child in The Dinner returns with another variation on this theme in Summer House with Swimming Pool. Dr. Marc Schlosser, the protagonist of our … Continue reading →

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The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Posted on September 12, 2014 by bseat

A. J. Fikry, owner of Island Books on Alice Island, Massachusetts, has been having “a no good, very bad” couple of years.  First the love of his life, his wife, died in a tragic traffic accident.  Then came the economic … Continue reading →

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