Each of the six books covered in this post I read in print. I’ll share audiobooks in a separate post on Thursday, but for today you’re in for some special books, including one that just might end up being my best of the year!…

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Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Publisher: Ecco
Release Date: October 6, 2020
Length: 256 pages
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{A Bit of Backstory}

Single Sentence Summary

Something bizarre is happening out there, forcing two very different couples to face their fears and themselves….

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Last Couple Standing by Matthew Norman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: March 17, 2020
Length: 288 pages
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{A Bit of Backstory}

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Funny story of a couple, surrounded by divorced friends, who devise an unconventional plan to save their own marriage….

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My last set of mini-reviews was less than a month ago, but somehow I’ve managed to acquire a stack of four novels in need of reviews. With so much focus on nonfiction this month, I didn’t want to let any of these books fall through the cracks. More than one gave me just the sort of reading respite I need in this crazy, busy fall season. I hope they might do the same for you.…

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Cape May by Chip Cheek (debut)
Publisher: Celadon Books
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Length: 256 pages
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{A Bit of Backstory}

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It’s 1957 when a quiet beach honeymoon turns into so much more as an innocent young couple become playmates of the rich behaving badly….

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My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing (debut)
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Length: 384 pages
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A perfectly normal couple have a sick little hobby: kidnapping and then killing women….

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Sometimes your reading takes a turn that surprises you in a good way. That’s exactly what has happened for me this month. I really liked two out of the three books I’m sharing today and NEITHER of those was originally on my radar for September.

Not Our Kind by Kitty Zeldis
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Length: 352 pages
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From the Publisher: “With echoes of Rules of Civility and The Boston Girl, a compelling and thought-provoking novel set in postwar New York City, about two women—one Jewish, one a WASP—and the wholly unexpected consequences of their meeting….Gripping and vividly told, Not Our Kind illuminates the lives of two women on the cusp of change—and asks how much our pasts can and should define our futures.”…

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When I was putting this pair of reviews together I really wanted to name it “A Domestic THRILLER Edition.” After all,  domestic thriller is more of a recognized sub-genre than domestic suspense, but I just couldn’t do it. Thriller implies edge-of-your-seat, gasping-for-breath type suspense and that’s just not how either A Double Life or Our House played out. Entertaining? Twisty? Suspenseful? Mostly, but not quite thriller!…

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Little Disasters by Randall Klein (debut)
Publisher: Viking
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Length: 352 pages
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{A Bit of Backstory}

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The story of Michael and Paul whose tangled relationship begins with the birth of their sons, and ends in disaster a year later….

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I hope everyone had a beautiful Mother’s Day! Mine was quiet with a lot of reading time spent on the front porch. I was hit hard by a very tenacious flu last week which kept me out of school the entire week. The weekend was all about building up strength and really relaxing before finally heading back to work tomorrow. The saddest part of the whole flu bug has been that my 8-month old grandson caught it from me, and we’re all just crossing out fingers that his parents and 2-year old sister don’t get it. You’d think being home for a week, I’d have accomplished a lot of reading, but most of the time I found it hard to stay focused.

Last Week’s Reads

Reading of any sort was difficult the first few days last week, but once I started feeling just a bit better I found great distraction in listening to Other People’s Houses by Abbi Waxman. …

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