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Judith’s 2024 Year in Books
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Judith Turner-Yamamoto
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Readers! Sharing this book of my heart and engaging with readers is an incredible experience!
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Loving the Dead and Gone
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Revisiting Olive Kitteridge
I read this novel in 2008 when it first came out. I recently picked it up again--in the book exchange in the laundry room of my building, of all places.
A book meets you where you are, and I find these characters finding and moving me anew, in a reflective place, taking measure of the past in all its layered and nuanced complexities.
Olive Kitteridge
Writing simply does not get better than Eliza
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A book meets you where you are, and I find these characters finding and moving me anew, in a reflective place, taking measure of the past in all its layered and nuanced complexities.
Olive Kitteridge
Writing simply does not get better than Eliza
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Upon the Corner of the Moon: A Tale of the Macbeths (Book One of Alba)
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Friendship, Fellowship, and The Kudzu Queen: A Literary Homecoming There’s nothing like traveling with friends. How incredible is this: I reread Mimi Herman’s The Kudzu Queen while traveling to North Carolina to give a book talk—where Mimmi herself wa ...more |
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The Safekeep So beautifully written and a surprise of a story that turns the Holocaust aftermath narrative on its unexpected head. The best novel I’ve read in years. Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep is a masterfully crafted novel that lingers in the ...more |
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The Safekeep So beautifully written and a surprise of a story that turns the Holocaust aftermath narrative on its unexpected head. The best novel I’ve read in years. Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep is a masterfully crafted novel that lingers in the ...more |
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“Everywhere she looked she saw their marriage. So big, like the ocean it went on and on, touching everything.”
― Loving the Dead and Gone
― Loving the Dead and Gone
“Everywhere she looked she saw their marriage. So big, like the ocean it went on and on, touching everything.”
― Loving the Dead and Gone
― Loving the Dead and Gone
On the Southern Literary Trail
— 2182 members
— last activity 15 hours, 41 min ago
Whether you prefer Faulkner, O'Connor, McCullers or more recent authors of Southern Literature such as Clyde Edgerton, Tom Franklin, William Gay, or M ...more
Read With Jenna (Official)
— 29531 members
— last activity Nov 10, 2025 05:22PM
When anyone on the TODAY team is looking for a book recommendation, there is only one person to turn to: Jenna Bush Hager. Jenna will select a book a ...more
Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge
— 42661 members
— last activity 7 hours, 16 min ago
This group is for people participating in the Popsugar reading challenge for 2025 or 2026 (or any other year). The Popsugar website posted a reading c ...more
Oprah's Book Club (Official)
— 84569 members
— last activity 20 hours, 19 min ago
Welcome to the official Oprah's Book Club group. OBC is the interactive, multi-platform reading club bringing passionate readers together to discuss i ...more
The Mercantile Library
— 130 members
— last activity Mar 18, 2020 08:05AM
A place for members and friends of the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati Ohio to meet and discuss books.
Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County Book Club
— 53 members
— last activity Mar 17, 2014 06:26PM
Join Cincinnatians all around social media as we read Amor Towles new book, "Rules of Civility," before his visit to the Main Library on August 25th! ...more
Historical Fictionistas
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Welcome to Historical Fictionistas! We want to experience all different kinds of HF with all different kinds of people. The more diverse, the better. ...more
Chicks On Lit
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— last activity Dec 03, 2025 08:02AM
(Est. Feb 14, 2008) More than a reading group of women but a place for honest, respectful, intelligent conversations led by adult women. Discussions a ...more
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Judith Turner-Yamamoto has written a brilliantly lyrical novel born of her native Southern heritage. Within these pages are the compelling and unforgettable characters of a North Carolina family steeped in love and generational conflict tempered by a tough country spirit.”—Kay Sloan, author of The Patron Saint of Red Chevys, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection
