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The Antidote For Everything by Kimmery Martin

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Kimmery Martin has done it again in "The Antidote For Everything." Her use of language and turns of phrase were plenty to keep me reading, but then there were the characters she developed in Georgia and Jonah. Their friendship is the type we all strive for. As a doctor, Martin knows…
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The Darlings by Cristina Alger

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The Darlings by Cristina Alger I enjoyed the audio version of this book very much. I was drawn to its portrait of a privileged family with its descriptions of the Manhattan elite and all their trappings. I am a fan of family drama and any book that is set in an environment…
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The Life-Changing Art of Letting Go: A Midlife Reckoning with my Stuff

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This essay was originally published on Zibby Owens' We Found Time. I once took a class in the art of memoir where the assignment was to write about an object and its meaning. I bristled at the prompt. Objects are only objects, I told myself, and imbuing them with meaning was materialistic…
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Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs

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Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs Loved this memoir. If you’ve read Steve Jobs’ biography... it adds the perspective of a girl with such incredible emotional intelligence. Lisa Brennan-Jobs has the ability to honestly reflect on her adolescent and young adult self without being…
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Severance by Ling Ma

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Severance by Ling Ma Not sure it was a good idea to read Severance while on lockdown during the COVID-19 Pandemic, but boy did it make it prescient and a bit surreal. I would wake up in the morning, having read before falling asleep, not sure which apocalyptic situation I was…
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Writers & Lovers by Lily King

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Writers & Lovers by Lily King Maybe it's because I'm a Bostonian and could relate so strongly to the setting, and being a writer myself, to that certain brand of neurosis, but King imparts so much in Writers and Lovers about being a creative soul and the insecurities and idealism…
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The Nine

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Eden: A Novel

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