Let's get some suggestions for the February BOTM - General.
The Last Time I Saw You By: Elizabeth Berg
As onetime classmates meet up over the course of a weekend for their fortieth high school reunion, they discover things that will irrevocably affect the rest of their lives. For newly divorced Dorothy, the reunion brings with it the possibility of finally attracting the attention of the class heartthrob. For the ever self-reliant, ever left-out Mary Alice, it’s a chance to reexamine a painful past. For Lester, a veterinarian and widower, it is the hope of talking shop with a fellow vet—or at least that’s what he tells himself. For Candy, the class beauty, it’s the hope of finding friendship before it’s too late. As these and other classmates converge for the reunion dinner, four decades melt away: desires and personalities from their youth reemerge, and new discoveries are made. For so much has happened to them all. And so much can still happen.
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Then Again By Diane Keaton
Mom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always little reminders
pasted on the kitchen wall. For example, the word THINK. I found THINK
thumbtacked on a bulletin board in her darkroom. I saw it Scotch-taped
on a pencil box she’d collaged. I even found a pamphlet titled THINK on
her bedside table. Mom liked to THINK.
So begins Diane
Keaton’s unforgettable memoir about her mother and herself. In it you
will meet the woman known to tens of millions as Annie Hall, but you
will also meet, and fall in love with, her mother, the loving,
complicated, always-thinking Dorothy Hall. To write about herself, Diane
realized she had to write about her mother, too, and how their bond
came to define both their lives. In a remarkable act of creation, Diane
not only reveals herself to us, she also lets us meet in intimate detail
her mother. Over the course of her life, Dorothy kept eighty-five
journals—literally thousands of pages—in which she wrote about her
marriage, her children, and, most probingly, herself. Dorothy also
recorded memorable stories about Diane’s grandparents. Diane has sorted
through these pages to paint an unflinching portrait of her mother—a
woman restless with intellectual and creative energy, struggling to find
an outlet for her talents—as well as her entire family, recounting a
story that spans four generations and nearly a hundred years.
More than the autobiography of a legendary actress, Then Again
is a book about a very American family with very American dreams. Diane
will remind you of yourself, and her bonds with her family will remind
you of your own relationships with those you love the most
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This is Where I Leave You By Jonathan Trooper
The death of Judd Foxman's father marks the first time that the entire
Foxman clan has congregated in years. There is, however, one conspicuous
absence: Judd's wife, Jen, whose affair with his radio- shock-jock boss
has recently become painfully public. Simultaneously mourning the
demise of his father and his marriage, Judd joins his dysfunctional
family as they reluctantly sit shiva-and spend seven days and nights
under the same roof. The week quickly spins out of control as
longstanding grudges resurface, secrets are revealed and old passions
are reawakened. Then Jen delivers the clincher: she's pregnant.
This Is Where I Leave You
is Jonathan Tropper's most accomplished work to date, and a riotously
funny, emotionally raw novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and
the ties that bind-whether we like it or not.
Quoting mupt02:Let's get some suggestions for the February BOTM - General.
Group Admin
Yep. Book of the Month.
Turn of Mind by Alica La Plante
Dr. Jennifer White is sixty-four-years-old, suffering from Alzheimer's
and a person of interest in the death of her best friend, Amanda. Her
days are filled with a reality that blurs and fades and sometimes is
intensely real. The police suspect Dr. White is involved in Amanda's
murder. She's an orthopedic surgeon and four of Amanda's fingers have
been removed with surgical precision. But is someone with advanced
dementia capable of committing a skillful murder without being detected?
The story is told through Dr. White's eyes. It's eerie to be inside
the head of someone whose reality changes from day to day. We meet her
children, her caregiver, and through the visions she experiences, her
husband, parents and Amanda herself. As the disease progresses, we are
drawn more and more into the complex, disturbing world inhabited by Dr.
White.
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(Group Owner) on Jan. 6, 2012 at 9:00 PM