{"id":6005,"date":"2022-08-01T11:28:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T15:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookhippie.com\/?p=6005"},"modified":"2023-11-13T17:46:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T22:46:34","slug":"2023-list-for-my-sundaybuddyread-on-litsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookhippie.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/01\/2023-list-for-my-sundaybuddyread-on-litsy\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 LIST for my #SundayBuddyRead on Litsy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ah SUNDAYS and my Buddy Read Peeps!
I absolutely LOVE THEM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few things we follow and some info: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. We love our group. This is year SIX <\/strong>of our group.<\/li>
  2. All are welcome to join in.<\/li>
  3. We follow a reading schedule. I post questions every Sunday that correlates with the schedule that has been posted for the month.<\/li>
  4. NO SPOILERS PLEASE.<\/strong> If you accidentally read ahead or have to finish up your library loan please do not post spoilers. The last discussion is open to anyone who has read the book even if you did not read with us.<\/li>
  5. Be KIND<\/strong>. Not everyone participating will have or even should have the same philosophy, ethos, religious, nonreligious or moral beliefs as you. <\/li>
  6. I will not tolerate homophobic, bigotted, or any type of hateful comments.<\/li>
  7. This is for FUN. It is one of the best parts of my week. No drama please. <\/li>
  8. I love you all! We have so much fun and I hope you will as well!<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    JANUARY – Discussion Sundays January 1-22<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Meet the Godmothers: Filomena is a clever, resourceful war refugee with a childhood secret, who comes to America to wed Mario, the family’s favored son. Amie, a beautiful and dreamy French girl from upstate New York, escapes an abusive husband and falls in love with Johnny, the oldest of the brothers. Lucy, a tough-as-nails Irish nurse who ran away from a strict girls’ home, marries Frankie, the sensuous middle son. And the glamorous Petrina, the family\u2019s only daughter, graduates with honors from Barnard College despite a past trauma that nearly caused a family scandal.
    Stylish, sassy and brave, all four women become godmothers to one another\u2019s children, finding hope and shelter in this prosperous family and their sumptuous Greenwich Village home, and enjoying New York life with its fine dining, opulent department stores and sophisticated nightclubs.
    But the women\u2019s secret pasts lead to unforeseen consequences and betrayals that threaten to unravel all their carefully laid plans. And when they must unexpectedly contend with notorious gangsters like Frank Costello and Lucky Luciano who run the streets of New York City, the Godmothers learn to put aside their differences and grudges so that they can work together to protect their loved ones.
    Refusing to merely imitate the world of men, the four Godmothers find their own unique paths to success, love, forgiveness, and the futures they\u2019ve always dreamed of.


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    THE LAST WEEKEND OF JANUARY – discussion Jan 29<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    EBOOK

    A woman moves to a town where she becomes obsessed with watching the lives of her neighbors while stuck in a house that refuses to let her leave in this first ever short story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases.<\/strong>

    Is there something wrong with Ginette Cox? It\u2019s what everyone seems to think. When a doctor suggests that what she might need is less excitement, she packs up and moves from New York City to a house in suburban NY: 19 Howard Ave.

    The town offers Ginette little in the way of entertainment in 1959, but at least she has interesting neighbors. Whether it\u2019s the little girl with her doll or the couple and their mother-in-law, Ginette watches them from her window and makes up names and stories for them.

    But it\u2019s not all peaceful in suburbia. Ginette finds it hard to sleep in her new house. There are strange and scary noises coming from the basement, and she is trapped, either by a ghost or her own madness.

    But when Ginette starts to think a murder has taken place and a mysterious man starts making terrifying appearances outside her window, it\u2019s clear she must deal with whatever isn\u2019t allowing her to escape this house\u2026
    in ebook January 3, 2023<\/strong>

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    FEBRUARY- Sundays<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Love arrives at the most unexpected time . . .<\/strong> 
    1821: Elias Roch has ghastly luck with women. He met Josephine De Clare once and penned dozens of letters hoping to find her again.
    2021: Josie De Clare has questionable taste in boyfriends. The last one nearly ruined her friendship with her best friend.
    Now, in the wake of her father’s death, Josie finds Elias’s letters. Suddenly she’s falling in love with a guy who lived two hundred years ago. And star-crossed doesn’t even begin to cover it . . . 
     
    \u201cDearest Josephine<\/em> is the type of story that becomes your own. The characters\u2019 heartaches worked their way into my own chest until I hurt with them, hoped with them, and dared to dream with them. This book is teeming with swoon-worthy prose, adorable humor, and an expert delivery of  \u2018Will they end up together?\u2019 I guarantee you\u2019ll be burning the midnight candle to a stub to get answers. Step aside Pride and Prejudice<\/em>, there\u2019s a new romance on the English moors.\u201d \u2014Nadine Brandes, author of Romanov<\/em>
    \u201cCaroline George infuses an epistolary love story with a romance and charm that crosses centuries. Touching and inventive, it bursts with wit, warmth, and a blending of classic and contemporary that goes together like scones and clotted cream. Dearest Josephine<\/em> is a delight.\u201d \u2014Emily Bain Murphy, author of The Disappearances <\/em>
    \u201cDearest Josephine<\/em> is more than an immersive read. It is a book lover\u2019s dream experience.  Josie\u2019s residence in a gothic English manor and her deeply romantic connection to Elias, who lived years in the past, is as chillingly atmospheric as Rochester calling across the moors. This story is George\u2019s treatise on the power of books and character to creep across centuries, to pull us close and invite us to live in a fantasy where we find love\u2014literally\u2014in the kinship of ink and binding. But it also acknowledges the dangers of letting ourselves fall too deeply when sometimes an equally powerful connection is waiting next door. This love letter to books, and the readers who exist in and for them, is a wondrously singular escape.\u201d \u2014Rachel McMillan, author of The London Restoration<\/em> and The Mozart Code<\/em> 
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    MARCH – Sundays <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    “Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful.”–#1 New York Times<\/em> bestselling author Emily Giffin A young woman arrives in Los Angeles determined to start over and discovers she doesn’t need to leave everything behind after all, from Abbi Waxman, USA Today<\/em> bestselling author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill<\/em><\/strong>
    When Laura Costello moves to Los Angeles, trying to escape an overprotective family and the haunting memories of a terrible accident, she doesn’t expect to be homeless after a week. (She’s pretty sure she didn’t start that fire — right?) She also doesn’t expect to find herself adopted by a rogue bookseller, installed in a lovely but completely illegal boardinghouse, or challenged to save a losing trivia team from ignominy…but that’s what happens. Add a regretful landlady, a gorgeous housemate and an ex-boyfriend determined to put himself back in the running and you’ll see why Laura isn’t really sure she’s cut out for this adulting thing. Luckily for her, her new friends Nina, Polly and Impossibly Handsome Bob aren’t sure either, but maybe if they put their heads (and hearts) together they’ll be able to make it work.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    APRIL – Sundays<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The first comprehensive biography of Adrienne Rich, feminist and queer icon and internationally revered National Book Award winning poet.<\/strong>

    Adrienne Rich was the female face of American poetry for decades. Her forceful, uncompromising writing has more than stood the test of time, and the life of the woman behind the words is equally impressive. Motivated by personal revelations, Rich transformed herself from a traditional, Radcliffe-educated lyric poet and married mother of three sons into a path-breaking lesbian-feminist author of prose as well as poetry. In doing so, she emerged as both architect and exemplar of the modern feminist movement, breaking ranks to denounce the male-dominated literary establishment and paving the way for the many queer women of letters to take their places in the cultural mainstream. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished materials, including Rich’s correspondence and in-depth interviews with numerous people who knew her, Hilary Holladay digs deep into never-before-accessed sources to portray Rich in full dimension and vivid, human detail.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    MAY- Sundays May <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from the poverty of Chinatown, San Francisco in 1906, and an education at St. Clare\u2019s School for Girls is her best hope. Although St. Clare\u2019s is off-limits to all but the wealthiest white girls, Mercy gains admittance through a mix of cunning and a little bribery, only to discover that getting in was the easiest part. Not to be undone by a bunch of spoiled heiresses, Mercy stands strong\u2014until disaster strikes.

    On April 18, a historic earthquake rocks San Francisco, destroying Mercy\u2019s home and school. Now she\u2019s forced to wait with her classmates for their families in a temporary park encampment. Though fires might rage, and the city may be in shambles, Mercy can\u2019t sit by while they wait for the army to bring help\u2014she still has the \u201cbossy\u201d cheeks that mark her as someone who gets things done. But what can one teenage girl do to heal so many suffering in her broken city?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    JUNE- Sundays <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the feeling took root\u2014that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible. 

    But America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father\u2014despite his hard-won citizenship\u2014Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    JULY- Sundays<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The house cleaner of a famous author must carry out her employer’s shocking last wish\u00a0in this delightful new novel from beloved author Phaedra Patrick<\/strong>

    Mother of two Liv Green barely scrapes by as a maid to make ends meet, often finding escape in a good book while daydreaming of becoming a writer herself. So she can’t believe her luck when she lands a job housekeeping for her personal hero, megabestselling author Essie Starling, a mysterious and intimidating recluse. The last thing Liv expected was to be the only person Essie talks to, which leads to a tenuous friendship.

    When Essie passes away suddenly, Liv is astonished to learn that her dying wish was for Liv to complete her final novel. But to do so Liv will have to step into Essie\u2019s shoes. As Liv begins to write, she uncovers secrets from the past that reveal a surprising connection between the two women\u2014one that will change Liv\u2019s own story forever\u2026
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    AUGUST- Sundays<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Lady Chatterley’s Lover<\/em> is both one of the most beautiful and notorious love stories in modern fiction. The summation of D.H. Lawrence’s artistic achievement, it sharply illustrates his belief that tenderness and passion were the only weapons that could save man from self-destruction.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    SEPTEMBER – Sundays<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    At their milestone high school reunion, a group of friends make a pact to finally achieve their high school superlatives one way or another, in the lively new novel from the acclaimed author of Last Summer at the Golden Hotel<\/em>.<\/strong>

    In 1997, grunge is king, Titanic<\/em> is a blockbuster (and Blockbuster still exists), and Thursday nights are for Friends<\/em>. In Bellport, Connecticut, four best friends and high school seniors are ready to light the world on fire. Melissa Levin, Priya Chowdhury, Tara Taylor, and Suki Hammer are going places. Their yearbook superlatives confirm it: Most Likely to Win the White House, Cure Cancer, Open a Michelin-Starred Restaurant, and Join the Forbes 400.
     
    Fast forward twenty-five years and nothing has gone according to plan as the women regroup at their dreaded high school reunion. When a forgotten classmate emerges at the reunion with a surprising announcement, the friends dig out the yearbook and rethink their younger selves. Is it too late to make their dreams come true? Fueled by nostalgia and one too many drinks, they form a pact to push through their middle-aged angst to bring their teenage aspirations to fruition, dubbing themselves the \u201cMost Likely Girls.\u201d
     
    Through the ensuing highs and lows, they are reminded of the enduring bonds of friendship, the ways our childhood dreams both sustain and surprise us \u2014 and why it\u2019s deeply uncool to peak in high school.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    OCTOBER- Sundays (This is the author that inspired Simone St James)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Mary Stewart, one of the great British storytellers of the 20th century, transports her readers to rural Northumberland for this tale of romance, ambition, and deceit – a perfect fit for fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara Pym. <\/strong>

    ‘There are few to equal Mary Stewart<\/strong>‘ Daily Telegraph

    ‘Mary Stewart is magic<\/strong>.’ New York Times

    <\/em>Whitescar is a beautiful old house and farm situated in Roman Wall country. It will make a rich inheritance for its heirs, but in order to secure it, they enlist the help of a young woman named Mary who bears remarkable resemblance to missing Whitescar heiress, Annabel Winslow. Their deception will spark a powder-keg of ambition, obsession and long-dead love.

    The ivy had reached for the tree and only the tree’s upper branches managed to thrust the young gold leaves of early summer through the strangling curtain. Eventually the ivy would kill it . . . <\/em>


    ‘One of the great British storytellers of the 20th century<\/strong>‘ Independent<\/em>

    ‘The Ivy Tree<\/em> has the ideal thriller blend of plot, suspense, character drawing and good writing<\/strong>‘ Daily Express<\/em>
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    NOVEMBER – Sundays (this is still offered on BOTM) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Sex and the City <\/em>meets Bad Blood<\/em> and Catch Me if You Can <\/em>in the astonishing true story of Anna Delvey, a young con artist posing as an heiress in New York City\u2014as told by the former Vanity Fair <\/em>photo editor who got seduced by her friendship and then scammed out of more than $62,000.<\/strong>

    Rachel DeLoache Williams\u2019s new friend Anna Delvey, a self-proclaimed German heiress, was worldly and ambitious. She was also generous\u2014picking up the tab for lavish dinners at Le Coucou, infrared sauna sessions at HigherDOSE, drinks at the 11 Howard Library bar, and regular workout sessions with a celebrity personal trainer.

    When Anna proposed an all-expenses-paid trip to Marrakech at the five-star La Mamounia hotel, Rachel jumped at the chance. But when Anna\u2019s credit cards mysteriously stopped working, the dream vacation quickly took a dark turn. Anna asked Rachel to begin fronting costs\u2014first for flights, then meals and shopping, and, finally, for their $7,500-per-night private villa. Before Rachel knew it, more than $62,000 had been charged to her credit cards. Anna swore she would reimburse Rachel the moment they returned to New York.

    Back in Manhattan, the repayment never materialized, and a shocking pattern of deception emerged. Rachel learned that Anna had left a trail of deceit\u2014and unpaid bills\u2014wherever she\u2019d been. Mortified, Rachel contacted the district attorney, and in a stunning turn of events, found herself helping to bring down one of the city\u2019s most notorious con artists.
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    DECEMBER- Sundays (I thought we’d try something different. IF we like these we can read more of them) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Winter, 1920<\/strong>. Amateur sleuth Lady Eleanor Swift<\/strong> is feeling festive. She is playing host to the entire village at Henley Hall for gifts, games and gingerbread. She\u2019s also purchased perfect presents for each of her household \u2013 not forgetting the biggest bone in the butcher\u2019s shop for her partner in crime, Gladstone the bulldog \u2013 and is looking forward to celebrating her first English country Christmas.
    As snowflakes fall, Eleanor is cheering on contestants in the traditional Christmas fun run in the grounds of the Hall. But tragedy strikes when one of the runners drops dead at the finish line. Dashing Detective Seldon is convinced it\u2019s just a heart attack, but Eleanor isn\u2019t so sure. When she finds a rather distinctive key where the man fell, Eleanor knows she\u2019ll never rest until she finds out the truth about what happened in her own home. 
    Next the vicar is taken ill with what looks like poison and Eleanor starts to wonder if the two cases are linked. When someone tries to frame her by planting poisoned berries in her own kitchen, she knows speed is of the essence. But the entire village was at Henley Hall for the festivities and Eleanor has enough suspects to stuff a town full of turkeys. Can she nail the true killer and clear her name in time for Christmas?


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    2023 JUST WOW!! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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