The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue by V.E. Schwab
Narrator: Julia Whelan
Publisher: Tor Books (Macmillan Audio)
Release Date: October 6, 2020
Length: 448 pages (17 hrs. 10 min.)
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Addie makes a bargain to live a life of freedom, and 300 years later she’s still struggling with the deal she struck. …

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The Margot Affair by Sanaë Lemoine (debut)
Publisher: Hogarth
Release Date: June 16, 2020
Length: 336 pages
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An insightful story of girl on the brink of adulthood longing to be known by her actress mother, her politician father, and the world she’s been kept a secret from her entire life….

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The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer (debut)
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Length: 384 pages
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Lee Miller found herself adrift in 1929 Paris, when a chance meeting with artist/photographer Man Ray set her life on a whole new trajectory….

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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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The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Publisher: Viking
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Length: 432
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Stunning portrayal of the AIDS crisis in Chicago seen through the eyes of two people deeply affected by the epidemic that’s slowly taking everyone they love….

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Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Length: 384 pages
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Single Sentence Summary: A best-selling writer meets a woman, much like herself, who challenges everything she believes about writing and reality.

Primary Characters: Delphine – A very successful French writer, coming off her most popular book yet. Delphine’s life is in flux. Her children are soon headed to college and her writing is increasingly blocked. L. – An elegant, sophisticated woman Delphine meets at a party. L. quickly becomes a fixture in Delphine’s life, and in her work….

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This Tuesday’s Top Ten topic is Things That Will Make Me Instantly Want To Read A Book. Most readers have triggers that will pull them toward a book, making it something they just “have to read.” I happen to have many different book temptations, so the narrowing of my list down to ten was a bit of a challenge. However, one of the most wonderful things about books is that they’re multi-dimensional, so in a single book several temptations can be satisfied at once. Let’s take a look at a book highlighting ten of my book lures….

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As the end of the month approaches, I thought it was time I take a stab at Nonfiction November. This is week 4, Be the Expert/Ask the Expert/Become the Expert, hosted by Julz Reads. The expert theme asks that you share 3 or more books on a single topic that you have read and can recommend (be the expert). Or that you put the call out for good nonfiction on a specific topic that you have been dying to read (ask the expert). Or, finally, that you create your own list of books on a topic that you’d like to read (become the expert).

I chose to be the “expert.” (I say this hysterically laughing at myself.) I like to think of this little foray into nonfiction expertise as “Nonfiction Lite!”

Something people close to me know is that I have a small love affair going with Paris. I’ve been lucky enough to travel there several times and never tire of the beautiful city. I truly love everything about it: the food, the wine, the cheeses, the cafes, the museums, the gardens, the Metro, the arrondissements, the walkability, the churches, the markets, and the French people, whom I have always found to be lovely….

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Last Week’s Reads:

I finished Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down by Anne Valente yesterday morning and then read You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris in the afternoon. Our Hearts will Burn Us Down is about four teenagers in the aftermath of a mass shooting at their high school. It started out strong, …

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