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  Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett Nonfiction - Memoir 2004 Finished on November 4, 2025 Rating: 3/5 (Good) Publisher's Blurb: Ann Pa...

  We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman Fiction 2022 Harper Finished on April 1, 2023 Rating: 5/5 (Outstanding) Publisher's...

  Love & Saffron : A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love by Kim Fay Fiction 2022 G. P. Putnam's Sons Finished on January 23, 2023 R...

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles Fiction 2012 Penguin Books (first published in 2011) Finished on July 3, 2018 Rating:  4.5/5 (Very...

The Bridge Ladies by Betsy Lerner Memoir 2016 HarperAudio Read by Orlagh Cassidy Finished on October 4, 2016 Rating: 3.5/5 (Good) ...

Let’s Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell Memoir 2010 Random House Finished on 3/15/13 Rating: 4/5 (Very Good) Publisher’...

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I am so thankf...

Good friends and good books -- things we want to hang on to forever. Last Wednesday marked the 6th anniversary of Lesley’s Book Nook (now k...

Joy For Beginners by Erica Bauermeister Fiction 2011 G.P. Putnam’s Sons Finished on 2/27/11 Rating: 4.5/5 (Terrific!) FTC Disclosure: ...

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson