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@charcutereading 2023 was a slow reading year, but a big year in a lot of other ways. I don’t know what’s in store for 2024, but I’m always grateful for anytime spent reading. In no particular order, here are my 5⭐️ reads from 2023— The Last Love Note by emmagreyauthor - I thought this was going to be a rom com when I picked it up on a whim at target so I was wholly unprepared for the spiral of emotions this book put me through. I loved every minute of it though and I thought the sad part of the story was so well balanced with the joyful part. Hidden Potential by adamgrant - [Thanks to prhaudio for the gifted copy of this one.] I read more non fiction in 2023 than I ever have at any other point in my life thanks to the sharonsaysso book club, and I loved Hidden Potential so much that I immediately had my husband read it. Every few pages I was stopping to read him something I thought would resonate with him as someone who both coaches our kids in various activities and is at a turning point in his own career. I purchased at least 3 copies to give as gifts this holiday season as well. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett- came for Meryl Streep on the audio version of this book and stayed for the absolutely stunning picture Ann Patchett painted. I never wanted this one to end. Dual timelines is one of my favorite plot devices and I loved each time period equally. This book had me googling Michigan vacation rentals and where I could see Our Town. The Unmaking of June Farrow by adrienneyoungbooks - Magical realism, mystery, generational family drama, a little romance, this one truly has it all and it’s all extremely well done. I could not stop turning pages and when I ran out of pages to turn I was devastated. Worst book hangover of the year. None of This is True by lisajewelluk - I really did not think I would love this one as much as I did. I hate an unreliable narrator, but somehow this sucked me in anyway. It was completely unhinged and kept me on the edge of my seat. A thrilling ride in every way and a great example of why Lisa Jewell is an auto buy author for me—even when I think I’m out, she reels me in.
@olivias_reads A mid-month book haul! 📚 When target has a book sale, there is no option but to stock up! I am SO excited about all 4 of these & will be getting into them as soon as possible✨ ⭐️ Bright Young Women ⭐️ Tom Lake ⭐️ Divine Rivals ⭐️ Wildfire #bookstagram #bookhaul #newbooks #tomlake #wildfire #divinerivals #brightyoungwomen #anticipatedreleases
Tom Lake - by Ann Patchett (Hardcover)
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In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers.
"Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature." --The Guardian
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.
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"One of our greatest living chroniclers of love and marriage--and its resounding impacts over generations--is back this summer ... Expect wonder; Patchett always delivers." -- Elle
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