by: Jerry Seinfeld Goodreads Description: The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades in comedy. Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub “Catch a Rising Star” as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved […]
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Leave the World Behind
by: Rumaan Alam Goodreads Description: A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son […]
The Book of Lost Names
by: Kristin Harmel Goodreads Description: Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying […]
Upcoming Books – November 2020
Here’s what we will be reading in November. We hope you will read along with us. Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld Click here to purchase this book. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam Click here to purchase this book. The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel Click here to purchase this book.
October Vol. 2 Tidbit
What is your favorite cookbook?…Asks no one ever, thanks to google! We thought we would tell you. Helen says: For those of you that don’t know me, I have a side-hustle catering business with my friends (Betsy and Lisa – shout out!). One would think that I would be creating gourmet masterpieces for my family […]
The Exiles
by: Christina Baker Kline Good Reads Description: The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant novel that captures the hardship, oppression, opportunity and hope of a trio of women’s lives in nineteenth-century Australia. Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when […]
The End of October
by Lawrence Wright Good Reads Description: In this riveting medical thriller–from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author–Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are […]
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Good Reads Description: From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running […]
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Good Reads Description: ‘An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.’ From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and […]
October Vol. 1 Tidbit
What is October without a little pumpkin spice reference?! We thought we would share our favorite seasonal delights – pumpkin spice flavored, of course! Helen says: This is worth the wait of Trader Joe’s constant long line. It is kryptonite to my diet plan. I am glad it only comes out seasonly or else I […]