I really really wanted to love this book. I picked it up after hearing Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, speak at a conference last summer. I found her to be an engaging speaker and I immediately picked up her two books, hoping for more of the same. In Option B, she talks primarily about unexpectedly losing her husband and how she has coped since his death. The book’s subtitle, “Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy”, leads one to believe that the lessons she learned can […]
More like cutting my heart….
Oh hello there. Well CBR9 was a bit of a bust for me, in that life got crazy and I read exactly one book in Nov/Dec. ugh. But let’s give it a go again! I’m starting off this year with a book club pick, Cutting For Stone…and yeah, it was great. After an unfortunate reading hiatus, and a crazy holiday, this was a great book to get lost in. Marion & Shiva are identical twins born to a nun in Ethiopia at the missionary hospital […]
Are people really like this? Really? In real life?
So, immediately after reading The Break, I needed a palette cleanser – something a bit more mindless and light. This hit the spot for that. A fairly generic mystery that was entertaining, but it wasn’t a complete home run for me. The Lying Game is about four friends who are living their separate lives in England, all while hiding a secret that they have been lying about since they were in high school together. When something threatens to expose their secret, they come together […]
Really, nothing compares to the bonds between women…
The Break was a recent book club selection that was part of being intentional about not just reading yet another novel about white, middle-class North Americans in their 30’s. 2017 has been about intentionally divresifying the reading list, and man, aren’t we all just better for that? This book is set in Winnipeg, Manitoba and focuses on a Metis family (and their friends) dealing with several crises in each of their lives. The chapters focus alternately on several members of the family from various […]