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Summer Sisters wasn’t bad, but I feel like it could have been better. Vix and Caitlin have a relationship that is simple and complicated all at once. Vix just falls into it, really. Caitlin decides she likes her, and that’s all it takes. Because Caitlin always gets what she wants. She’s the wild child, Vix is her shadow. The book spends a lot of time
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I rarely read short story collections, but I tore through this one, devouring a story or two each night before I’d sleep. There is a sharpness to Ellis’s stories — they are very New York, but very Proper Southern Lady at the same time, which is exactly how I imagine Helen Ellis to be. An imagining that has turned out to be pretty accurate, if
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Title: Jemima J Author: Jane Green Format: Paperback Pages: 384 Release Date: June 05, 2001 Publisher: Broadway Source: personal copy Read the back of the book Jemima Jones is overweight. About one hundred pounds overweight. Treated like a maid by her thin and social-climbing roommates, and lorded over by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented but better paid) at the Kilburn Herald, Jemima finds that her
Read moreTitle: Ninepins Author: Rosy Thornton Format: ARC Paperback Pages: 320 (2012 total – 4,969) Approx. Word Count: 96,000 (2012 total – 1,374,983) Release Date: April 16, 2012 Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd Categories: general fiction, women’s fiction Source: ARC from author Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Back of the book: Deep in the Cambridgeshire fens, Laura is living alone with her 12-year-old daughter Beth, in the
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