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> Tag: women's fiction

If your therapist started writing chick-lit, this is what you’d get.

Things You Save In A Fire by Katherine Center

June 18, 2022 by RaRaGabor Leave a Comment

This is the second Katherine Center book I’ve read. My book club read How To Walk Away a couple years ago. It was fine! Not my usual cup of tea, but we actually had a good discussion around disability, the ethics that therapists should/do follow, etc. I thought Things You Save In A Fire might be a good addition for the Beach Reads presentation that I’m doing for work. Cassie Hanwell is a 26 year old fire fighter. She’s also a rising star in the […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: chick lit, Katherine Center, women's fiction

RaRaGabor's CBR14 Review No:43 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: chick lit, Katherine Center, women's fiction ·
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“[She] knew that this was her life. Better to be immersed in it than to see it from afar.”

Some Luck by Jane Smiley

June 9, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

I really enjoy this book and I think this is my second or third time reading it. Some Luck follows the Langdon family, who start off as farmers in Iowa. Each chapter is one year in their lives, and that concept makes this book very readable, as it moves along at a fast pace. This is the first book in a trilogy and covers 1920 to 1953. I think the thing that makes this book more than a gimmick is Jane Smiley’s beautiful prose — there are […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 20th century America, american literature, farm life, jane smiley, women's fiction, World War II fiction

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:47 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 20th century America, american literature, farm life, jane smiley, women's fiction, World War II fiction ·
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“I felt that I was now old enough to become fussy and spinsterish if I wanted to:” A Gentle Post-War Comedy of Manners

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

June 3, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

This is a fast read but it has a lot of depth to it. I enjoyed it and it was the kind of book that surprises you and is counter to what you were expecting, in a good way. Excellent Women was a little outside of my normal reading pattern in that I’m not always a literary fiction type person, but this turned out to be more of a comedy of manners novel than the literary accolades suggested. And it’s good to broaden one’s reading […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Barbara Pym, comedy of manners, female lead, post WWII Britain, Romance, women's fiction

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:44 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Barbara Pym, comedy of manners, female lead, post WWII Britain, Romance, women's fiction ·
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Runaway…

Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

July 11, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Wow. So this book bounced all over the place and my brain still feels fizzy because there was a lot of things going on, but boy did I love this book! I loved Bernadette, Bee, their weird dog Ice Cream, and I loved the emails and letters between two women who I would have throttled if I ever met in real life (Audrey Griffin and Soo-Lin). This book was in parts funny and sad and back to funny again. I picked this because I wanted […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Mystery Tagged With: Bernadette, cbr11bingo, humor, Maria Semple, mystery, Where'd You Go Bernadette, women's fiction

Classic's CBR11 Review No:161 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Mystery · Tags: Bernadette, cbr11bingo, humor, Maria Semple, mystery, Where'd You Go Bernadette, women's fiction ·
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The Murder Subplot Didn’t Work

The Last Time I Was Me by Cathy Lamb

February 22, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Yeah, I know you are like well this looks like a good book, well it was except for a whole murder subplot that put it in a different category in my mind. It also at times didn’t feel realistic with what I would imagine would happen in real life with regards to Jeanne’s trial for assault of her ex boyfriend. I think I was highly amused by certain parts of the book and at times thought that Lamb had some bad messaging in here. “The […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Cathy Lamb, The Last Time I Was Me, women's fiction

Classic's CBR11 Review No:49 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Cathy Lamb, The Last Time I Was Me, women's fiction ·
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Love Story Between Two Sisters

How to Walk Away by Katherine Center

February 8, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

I ended up reading another book by Center and wanted to revisit her other books. I honestly liked this one, but didn’t really need the romance for the main character (Margaret). Also I am not a fan of male characters ignoring it when a female character tells you what their name is and they refuse to use it. I swear I have seen this happen in other romance books and I want everyone to just stop putting that in there. The love story to me […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: chick lit, How to Walk Away, Katherine Center, women's fiction

Classic's CBR11 Review No:36 · Genres: Romance · Tags: chick lit, How to Walk Away, Katherine Center, women's fiction ·
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