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Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The

Peeking into Pippa Author: Rebecca Miller All too often we think we know people because we’ve been in their house or know what they do for a living or what their children are like.  But the truth is, especially as people get older, that those outward things mean very little.  When we meet people as adults they have lived whole lives about which we know absolutely nothing.  The Private Lives of Pippa Lee vividly demonstrates that fact while it looks at life in stages, from childhood to old age. Pippa Lee is the 50-year-old wife of a very successful 80-year-old [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:26-07:00April 25th, 2012|Tags: , , , |

Shatter Me

Drippy Dystopian Romance Author: Tahereh Mafi The Hunger Games were destined to spawn countless copycat Young Adult dystopian novels.  That's not really a bad thing.  Strong heroines, brave resistance to tyranny, a solid story from beginning to end - all good.  Unfortunately, grabbing a post-apocalyptic setting and tacking on a more typical and cliched "teen book" is a lot easier than borrowing the more complex elements of The Hunger Games.  Shatter Me has a smattering of originality in places, leaving it many steps above sparkling vampires, but stumbles into too many trite potholes to be a worthy dystopian successor to [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:28-07:00April 16th, 2012|Tags: , , , , , |

Sister

Sibling Mystery Author: Rosamund Lupton Told in the first person in the form of a letter, Sister is a story of murder.  It's also a story of self-actualization, healing past wounds and a deep appreciation for the magic of unconditional love. Beatrice is writing to her sister Tess, a sister that has gone missing in their native London.  Beatrice, in her adulthood, has become ensconced in a safe, controlled job and relationship in New York City.  Her free spirited artist sister, very pregnant with her first child, has vanished while Beatrice is on vacation, unwillingly cut off from her usual [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:28-07:00April 16th, 2012|Tags: , , , , |
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