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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

May 6, 2011 – 4:47 pm

Shop Indie Bookstores Quirky I like and Aimee Bender’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake certainly fills that bill.  This is a strange little fable like story about Rose Edelstein, her family and how Rose copes with a sudden ability to taste people’s emotions in the food they fix. Not a good thing as we [...]

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This Is Where I Leave You

March 21, 2010 – 6:45 pm

Shop Indie Bookstores Very funny, often poignant story of Judd Foxman as he faces the end of his marriage, the death of his father and the coming together of his immediate family through the process of sitting shiva. Can’t wait for the movie. Book Author: Jonathan Tropper This post was submitted by helen.

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The Divide

January 13, 2009 – 5:11 pm

I enjoyed The Divide. Its the story of an interesting family & what divides them–the play on words is that the family vacations at a ranch called The Divide, and it is this place & the people they meet there that create the plot, which centers on the daughter who becomes an ecoterroist. Book Author: [...]

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Some Things That Stay

January 13, 2009 – 5:00 pm

This is a book from 2000, but I just found it & really enjoyed it. Its the story of a teenager named Tamara whose family moves every year & she just wants to stay someplace & live a normal life. Interesting family & situations. Set in the 1950′s with air raids at school, TB, & [...]

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Run

December 13, 2008 – 6:52 pm

I expected to read a story about a Boston political family (aka The Kennedys) and the consequences when one of the sons is involved in a car accident. Instead,I was surprised to read a story about a former mayor of Boston and how a car accident one night turns his family inside out…in a very [...]

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