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The Nest? More like the Mess!

February 9, 2017 by Julie 5 Comments

Don’t be fooled by the wonderful description of this book!  It’s supposedly an amazing debut novel about a dysfunctional family and the front cover has a blurb by Amy Poehler.  It was even voted as the best book of 2016 and made it to the Goodreads finalist lists. The book takes place in New York city and it’s about the Plumb family, four children who grew up in a fairly dysfunctional house and then made their way in the world.  The Nest in the title […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction Tagged With: Book Club Reads, cynthia d'aprix sweeny, The nest

Julie's CBR9 Review No:5 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction · Tags: Book Club Reads, cynthia d'aprix sweeny, The nest ·
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Don’t count your chickens before they hatch

September 28, 2016 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

Finally, after a few misses, I read a winner. The Nest won’t be my favorite read this year and the convoluted plot probably won’t be one I remember in a few years but it certainly cleansed my pallet and set me back on track for the year.  Leo Plumb is a rich, previously successful (married) playboy who finds himself in a car with a teenage waitress one evening. There is an accident and the Plumb family matriarch empties “the Nest” her late husband left her four children […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cynthia d'aprix sweeny, The nest

Caitlin_D's CBR8 Review No:79 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cynthia d'aprix sweeny, The nest ·
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