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Thank you, my friends: 51,000 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews on Goodreads . Is it time to discover (or rediscover) the novel about a home birth, a midwife on trial, and a young girl coming of age in Vermont that first introduced my work to so many of you? @DoubledayBooks

BarbaraBB I read and loved this one! Haven‘t raad any other books by you. Recommendations?! 2w

Suet624 @BarbaraBB I know you're not asking me specifically, but I would suggest avoiding The Double Bind. I've been haunted by that book for years now. 2w

BarbaraBB @Suet624 In a positive way? 2w

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Suet624 @BarbaraBB no 2w

BarbaraBB @Suet624 Lol. I won‘t 😀 2w

ChrisBohjalian @BarbaraBB Yes. 51,000 five-star reviews, 162,000 reviews total, and a 4 star average. 2w

ChrisBohjalian @BarbaraBB Perhaps Hour of the Witch? 2w

BarbaraBB Thanks! I‘ll check out both books mentioned! 2w

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melissajayne

Demon Copperhead: A Novel | Barbara Kingsolver

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4 ⭐️ Enjoyed most of the book, but it could have been a bit shorter #2025 #bookclub #retelling #fiction #oprahsbookclub

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Yes!! It was soooo long! 3mo

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CBee

She's Come Undone | Wally Lamb

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So, back when Oprah started her book club, I was super into it and read quite a few of the first books she chose. This beauty was one of them. Decided to reread it this week and I‘m so glad I did. It‘s still wonderful, and 20 years later (omg I‘m old) it still resonates. Would you believe this is the only Wally Lamb book I‘ve read? 🤦‍♀️

Ruthiella Oprah books are sometimes too sad for me. I did read this one though and also

I Know This Much Is True

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AmyG He has a new book coming out June 10….River is waiting. Looks potentially fabulous. 4mo

BarbaraBB I read this one and enjoyed it but before I read the tagged one and I was blown away

I Know This Much Is True

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CBee @Ruthiella I agree - the other ones I read when she first started were quite sad and intense. But, that‘s kind of my thing 😂🤷‍♀️😅 4mo

CBee @BarbaraBB I have that one and have meant to read it a million times. Decided I‘m going to start it today - hopefully🤞🏻😂 4mo

CBee @AmyG have you read any others of his? 4mo

squirrelbrain I had a copy with the same cover, but it somehow got lost over the years - might have to buy another and re-read it. 4mo

AmyG I read We Are Water, too. 4mo

CBee @squirrelbrain I always loved the cover. This is the original one I bought 20 years or so ago! I found a couple places where I dog eared the corners to mark my place - gasp - I haven‘t done that in years! 4mo

CBee @AmyG decided to start I Know This Much is True today and I think I‘m already hooked ♥️ 4mo

AmyG EDIT: I read the tagged, I Know This Much is True and The Hour I First Believed. (edited) 4mo

CBee @AmyG awesome 👏🏻 4mo

Suet624 AmyG @BarbaraBB I Know This Much is True is my absolute favorite of his. My twin boys were babies when I read it and boy did it affect me. 4mo

BarbaraBB @Suet624 That must have be extra special, while having your own twins (edited) 4mo

BarbaraBB @CBee I Know This Much Is True is so good and I also enjoyed The Hour I First Believed @AmyG 4mo

CBee @Suet624 I bet it did! 4mo

Reggie I felt so bad for that girl in here. I remember to lose weight she imagined mold on her food. And that her grandma dies before she gets a chance to visit her but she finds her way to be ok in the end. 4mo

CBee @Reggie yes! She does find her way after so much trauma 😢 4mo

vivastory Remember when they used to sell the Oprah selections next to the cash register at Starbucks? 4mo

CBee @vivastory omg total blast from the past - I didn‘t remember but now I do 😂😁 4mo

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Andrew65

The Pilot's Wife: A Novel | Anita Shreve

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This was a soft pick for this one which I read as part of the #ShelfSweeper Readathon #4Elizabeth. @Tove_Reads Book 2 from my shelf finished.

An interesting story finding out all about the secret‘s o& a pilot who was killed in an explosion in the air. As you find out more you get more and more annoyed by him, and what you find out. Some interesting twists along the way. Not sure what I make of the ending of the epilogue.

Tove_Reads Sounds mostly good, but the cover looks boring. 5mo

Andrew65 @Tove_Reads There are better covers out there for this one. Overall I enjoyed reading this one. 5mo

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Andrew65

The Pilot's Wife: A Novel | Anita Shreve

The tagged book is my second book read for the #ShelfSweeper Readathon @Tove_Reads #4Elizabeth

This book has been sitting on my shelf for more than 10 years. It tells the story of a wife who is awoken in the middle of the night to be told her pilot husband has been killed in an aeroplane accident, and goes on to tell his back story with no doubt some surprises along the way.

mcctrish I read this so many years ago and I remember it was an Oprah‘s pick and I was mad because I loved The Weight of Water so much more 5mo

Andrew65 @mcctrish Sounds ike you didn‘t enjoy this one as much. 5mo

mcctrish I did like it but Weight of Water was on a different level 5mo

lauraisntwilder @mcctrish The Weight of Water is the only Anita Shreve book I've read and I can imagine it would be hard for her other books to live up to that standard! 5mo

mcctrish @lauraisntwilder I was just so mad at Oprah ( and continues to colour my perception of Pilot‘s Wife to this day ) 5mo

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BoleyBooks

She's Come Undone | Wally Lamb

Tackle the TBR 🤓📚
What are you reading?
#boleybooks #shescomeundone #wallylamb #bookbeast #bookchat #letsread #libby

kspenmoll A library book! 6mo

PatriciaU Read this for a long ago book club. Enjoyed his descriptive writing. He has a new one out in May - The River Is Rising - that I‘m looking forward to reading. 6mo

BoleyBooks @PatriciaU -I‘ll need to add that to my list. 😊📚 6mo

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BoleyBooks @kspenmoll - 🙌📚🎉 6mo

bookaholic1 Such a great book..one of his best 6mo

BoleyBooks @bookaholic1 -I enjoyed it…achieved a full spectrum of emotion. 🤓📚 6mo

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ChrisBohjalian

Midwives: A Novel | Chris Bohjalian

Continuing the countdown of my books, from 1st to 25th, THE JACKAL‘S MISTRESS. Today it‘s my 5th novel, a 1997 story about a midwife on trial for manslaughter -- and the novel that would become my second movie (starring Sissy Spacek and Alison Pill), an Oprah's Book Club selection, and a #1 New York Times bestseller.

CBee Congratulations on an excellent book - I loved this one ♥️ 8mo

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Octoberwoman

While I Was Gone | Sue Miller

After two years of doing this I think I still have enough unread books to continue! So I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.

#ABookADay2025

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MommyWantsToReadHerBook

Vinegar Hill | A. Manette Ansay

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I had this on my shelves for at least 11 years and never noticed the Ophrah's Book Club bubble. I'm not sorry I finally read it but the blurb on the back uses words like "sweet" and "tender" and for me it was brutal! Women trapped in awful marriages with no love. I wonder what I would have made of this if I read it long before I left my own marriage. It was another book from the 90s where the 10/11-year-old acts very much more grown up ⬇️

MommyWantsToReadHerBook than even my daughter who is 11 turning 12 and I'm quite baffled about whether it's a cultural thing. The children in this book are really treated horribly, emotionally speaking. 9mo

ChaoticMissAdventures I really struggle with books from the 90s feeling awful and dated. Every book written around that time seems to have women treated horribly. 9mo

willaful Ouch! 9mo

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Beachbum

The Pilot's Wife: A Novel | Anita Shreve

This was a book club pick. A very fast paced book but predictable. There was a movie made on this that I need to watch. Kathryn‘s says good bye to her pilot husband Jack not knowing it would be the last time she would see him. His plane goes down and an investigation starts to see if terrorists are involved #winterreading #library #familydrama

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