by jim newell | Jul 6, 2011 | Not Bee Rated
Author: John Updike Set in the small, seaside town of Eastwick, Rhode Island, this story involves 3 witches and their involvement in the people of the town as well as a newcomer from New York who purchased an old estate in town. We spent some time talking about the...
by jim newell | Jul 6, 2011 | Not Bee Rated
Author: Ann Patchett Story set in South America about a group of international guests at a birthday party where a famous opera singer is performing. Terrorists crash the party and hold the guests hostage. Story details the relationships that develop between them. A...
by jim newell | Jul 6, 2011 | Not Bee Rated
Author: Jeffrey Zaslow Non-fictional account of 11 women from Ames, Iowa following their friendships over the span of 40 years. Generally well-liked; discussion of how unusual it was for these very different women to still be such close friends after so many years. We...
by jim newell | Jul 6, 2011 | Not Bee Rated
Author: Jeanette Walls The Glass Castle’ is a 2005 memoir by Jeannette Walls. The book recounts her and her siblings’ unconventional, poverty-stricken upbringing at the hands of their deeply dysfunctional parents. The memoir stayed on The New York Times...
by jim newell | Jul 6, 2011 | Not Bee Rated
Author: Lori Lansens Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen are linked at the side of the head, with separate brains and bodies. Born in a small town outside Toronto in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage mother two weeks later, the girls are...
by jim newell | Jul 6, 2011 | Not Bee Rated
Author: Anita Amirrezvani