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In Wonderland by Joyce Maynard My rating: 4 of 5 stars Maynard is such a wonderful storyteller. This is the story of Frances, fourteen, who gets to spend the summer in a lakefront home in Maine as a mother's helper. A world that is usually completely inaccessible to her, one full of country clubs, tennis tutors and more. This life seems magical to Frances who falls in love with so much of it and doesn't want the days to end. Until she realizes things are maybe not exactly as they seem and that maybe all that glitters is not, in fact, gold. The secrets start unraveling, her dreams of what this life is get shattered again and again as she gets embedded into the lives of the family she's staying with. This story brims with so much life. Frances' own coming of age story juxtaposed with the marriage and personal traumas of the Regina and Forrest and the lives of the two kids they have creates this layered and textured story of how complex ...

The Housewife by Natalie Barelli My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book was totally readable but also similar to many others I read. I had guessed the ending. At least most of it. It was still fun/easy to read. View all my reviews

My Nemesis by Charmaine Craig My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book was so unusual, I am still thinking about it. Nothing happens, it's a book of ideas. Of perspective. Of how we see each other and how we judge each other and how we don't understand each other. It's about intellectualism, about motherhood, about marriage, about being a woman. and so much more. View all my reviews

The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I enjoy Jackson's novels and this one delivers a funny and smart story about Caroline who is away on a writing retreat and meets Van and falls in love. She is then embedded into their long-existing friend group. But Van's on again and off again ex Bailey finds out that she's pregnant and she's keeping the baby...things take a bit of a complicated turn from there. Good story, well told. View all my reviews

Six Scorched Roses by Carissa Broadbent My rating: 3 of 5 stars Not sure why I read this one :) View all my reviews

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman My rating: 3 of 5 stars Interesting but also nothing new. View all my reviews