Cannonball Read 18

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Tee hee a brothel how scandale

Every Tom, Dick, and Harry by Elinor Lipman

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So the premise is, our heroine takes over an estate sale business when her parents retire, and then oo la la a potential client turns out to be a brothel, should she take the gig? The naughtiness of the very thought! Frissons! Palpitations! This is nominally a rom com and kinda gestures towards cozy mystery, but it doesn’t do either convincingly. I very much should have DNFed this, but I was in a writing group where we had to report in “what I’ve been reading” […]

A Light Fun Read

Good Riddance by Elinor Lipman

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I love Elinor Lipman. Her books are always fun, light, and a quick read. My favorite one is The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, I think Good Riddance is now my second favorite! The book is especially timely as it starts with a twenty-something named Daphne “Marie Kondo-ing” her belongings by dumping into the recycling the 1968 yearbook her mother had left her. This yearbook was special to her mother as it was dedicated to her, at the time a young, new teacher who was also […]



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