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Role Model? What's That?

What does it mean to be a woman? After all these years of being one, I’m not sure.

The basic gist of it, as I understood while growing up, was this: you got married, had kids, cooked, cleaned. Sometimes you worked. This is what all the women in my family did. My mother- and her mother- loved to cook; they were great cooks. Food was love that boiled over and simmered in the kitchen. And tidiness wa Read more of this blog post »
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The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
"Let me say right up front that if you need a plot, find another book to read. The bare bones of this novel consists of an unnamed older woman, whose unnamed male friend commits suicide, and she adopts his Great Dane, named Apollo, to keep him from be" Read more of this review »
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I’ve only started reading this (already saw the movie) and I absolutely love it and don’t want to read anything bad said about it, so there 😄

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Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
"Picoult is a good writer. Was the content of this one I didn't care for. Stopped reading as soon as I got to the high school shooting. Enough mass murders in real life. Don't need it in my fiction, even if the book goes on from there to be well struc" Read more of this review »
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The story was compelling but could have done without so much going on, so many characters, so much everything. I found I didn’t like many of the characters and it was a factor that made finishing this book a chore (I did finish it) Am I the only one ...more
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