F. Scott Fitzgerald
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
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“The Maid” by Nita Prose
Molly works as a maid in the Regency Grand, a five-star hotel. In her words, this is the work she was born to do. Every morning she puts on her maid uniform and gets her trolley. “There’s nothing quite like a perfectly stocked maid’s trolley early in the morning. It is, in my humble opinion,
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“Two Nights in Lisbon” by Chris Pavone
Ariel Pryce is an attractive woman in her mid-forties, recently married to a much younger man, John, who suggested she accompany him on his business trip to Lisbon. After their first passionate night in a Lisbon hotel, Ariel wakes up and discovers her husband is gone. Stranded in a foreign country, she proves quick-thinking and
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A Killing in Costumes by Zac Bissonnette
Imagine a cute, Old Hollywood memorabilia store in Palm Springs: here, a customer can browse vintage film magazines while sitting at the authentic horror movie table, stained with fake blood, and admire legendary costumes, perhaps even try on a green beret worn by John Wayne in “The Green Berets.” This is a dream come true
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“Lessons” by Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan’s latest novel, “Lessons,” might be his best book yet. It starts when the eleven years old Roland Baines is sent to a state boarding school in England. The Cuban Missile Crisis looms over the world, but “James Hern, the stern but privately kind housemaster, did not mention in his evening announcements that the
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The Rising Tide: A Vera Stanhope Novel, by Ann Cleeves
Every five years, for almost fifty years, a group of friends comes to Holy Island, a quiet place off Northumberland’s coast, frequently cut off from the mainland because of the tides, for a weekend full of memories, good food, and drinking. They agree with the phrase “60 is the new 40” and subconsciously still see
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“The Books of Jacob” by Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk’s “The Books of Jacob” is not just a novel. With almost 1000 pages, for a reader, it’s a commitment. My plan was to read one chapter daily – the story consists of thirty-one, combined into five books. In the end, it turned out that I finished it much quicker than anticipated, binging on
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