pickA pretty easy read. It isn‘t the best book ever, but I enjoyed it and it kept my interest! Book 3/25 complete 📚
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pickA pretty easy read. It isn‘t the best book ever, but I enjoyed it and it kept my interest! Book 3/25 complete 📚
pickA story of lifelong friends Cece and Joan. It takes place in Houston in the present time of 1957 and before. A story of friendship, family and secrets. Good book. 3.5 stars
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Starting this book today! Excited to read It, It takes place in my hometown of Houston, Texas😄
panThis book promised several storylines that had the potential to develop into something interesting. Unfortunately, none of them did. For the life of me I cannot figure out what makes the MC, Joan, so damn interesting to everyone- and the author never really explains either. Her friend Cece is obsessed with her, bordering on a “single white female” situation, but without any of the drama or intrigue. Boring.
#TBRtemptation post 2! The 1950s Houston socialite scene is full of garden clubs and balls, with Fortier at the white-hot center. All the men want her, all the women want to be her. While it's a man's world, she craves for more. Which leads to a major crisis for her best (and childhood)friend--or partner-in-crime--Cece. A friendship as obsessive, euphoric, and complicated as any romance. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
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pickA quick and easy read. Despite all the frippery and frivolity there is an interesting story in there. I enjoyed it.
pickAnd out of the ordinary pic for me, I was engaged from the very first in the story of 1950s Houston. Two friends living very different lives, making very different choices in the world that did not allow women to make choices.
Intriguing for the mystery at the center of the book, but some of the characters' motivations are amorphous and hard to pin down. Still good on a mostly superficial level, and difficult to put down.
panOh, what a bummer. I really enjoyed his last novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls. This was just overwrought with drama that just didn't resolve in a way that was satisfying. I love women friendship stories but this just wasn't complex or layered.
so-soThis was not exactly what I expected but I mostly enjoyed it. While I was reading, I found myself wrapped up in Cece's life but when I put the book down the story didn't stay with me like a really good book should. I found I wasn't excited to get back to it and just continued to read because I was mildly curious about what would happen. Overall, I kind of liked it but wouldn't go around recommending it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
#Day6 #somethingforsept is #bookanddrink: now that I'm all caught up on posts, I'm going to enjoy this glass of wine and the book I'm currently reading. So far, I'm really enjoying the characters. #septphotochallenge
pickThis is the one I finished yesterday. Lovely historical fiction about life in Houston in the 1950s. You never REALLY know someone...
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Current read, nothing great so far
My first #24in48 book! It might be more realistic for me to aim for 12 hours...
Starting out pretty good so far. I could use a lighter read...
The social scene is big; the hair, makeup & fashion of the era are described in glorious detail💁👗👠👛
so-soCame third or forth in the line of books I've read recently with a main character totally lacking the backbone or confidence to stand up for herself. Very on the fence about this one...
so-soSlow build tale of friendship, secrets and obsession. Not bad, but not amazing. Decent?
Book, hammock, dog, breeze, storm in the distance. I hope Heaven is just like this...
pickI enjoyed this one,even when I didn't like either of the main characters at times. The story of best friends,set in the 50s,gives us a fairly good glimpse of how little we often know about the people we're close to,or think we're close to.
Here we go, Litsy! My first post.... Featuring my current TBR pile. The Letter Writer I devoured in 2 nights, loved Miller's Valley. Looking forward to more posts!
so-soI was disappointed with this slow, daunting tale in which I didn't come to like any of the characters, with the possible exception of the little son of Cece. I thought it'd be a winner🙁
I'm a bit behind in my reading (and my work, and other tasks, and life in general) because my parents were visiting for a week and I had so little time to myself ... So today is all about that book all about that book no treble
Next read🤓🤓
Started this the other day and really dig it. Was saving the bulk of it for pool day this morning, which has been postponed/cancelled by a rogue Fedex delivery😒
Thanks to all my @Litsy friends for reminding me that the local library lends ebooks!! So excited to try this out!
so-soI was provided a free copy of this book by the publisher for an honest review. I thought the book was very well written, but I couldn't get into the characters and so that affected me greatly. I am excited now to read other books by this author as I did like her writing style.
Now this is fun!!
pick4🌟Strip away the fun glitz and glamour, and this is a story about how well a woman can know her best friend as an adult. I just got some shocking news from a dear friend, so I will say, you don't know your girlfriends completely. This book mixes friendship & wealth in the Houston 1950s social scene
I was laughing along with this, and then two pages later, I was wondering why one character didn't just google another. The book is set in 1957! 🤐 Don't repeat that. #historicalfictionproblems
This quote pretty much sums up the set up of this book. Cece is obsessed with Joan. There's some other stuff. I'm interested to see where DiSclafani takes this. It's not super compelling yet but very readable.
