Tag: Elinor Lipman

• My November Reads

  FABULOUS month of reading! I enjoyed all of these books, but my two favorites were the two 5-star reads! And, The Correspondent may be my favorite book of 2025! I highly recommend you read it!

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  December 12, 2025

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  Awake: A Memoir, books, Elinor Lipman, Every Tom Dick and Harry, Jen Hatmaker, Jennifer Breedlove, literature, Murder Will Out, novel, reading, Steven Rowley, The Correspondent, The Guncle Abroad, Virginia Evans

• Book Review: Every Tom, Dick & Harry by Elinor Lipman

  I just finished my 64th book of the year, Every Tom, Dick & Harry (Harper, February 2025) by Elinor Lipman. First let me say right off the bat: I LOVED THIS BOOK. Elinor Lipman is one of my top favorite authors, and she sits amid some pretty prestigious company, with Elizabeth Strout, AJ Pearce, Ann…

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  November 21, 2025

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  Agatha Christie, AJ Pearce, Ann Napolitano, book-review, books, Elinor Lipman, Elizabeth Strout, estate sale, Every Tom Dick & Harry, fiction, Harper, literature, My Latest Grievance, nonfiction, novel, reading, The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, The View From Penthouse B, writer, writing

• The Para-Social Network

  The 2010 movie The Social Network details Mark Zuckerberg’s digital creation of Facesmash. Initially created out of spite after a failed date, it was an online directory of female students at Harvard where students could rate the girls’ attractiveness. Out of that misogynistic idea came Facebook, or TheFacebook as it was originally called. Today, Facebook…

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  July 29, 2025

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  AJ Pearce, Catholic Church, completist, Elinor Lipman, Elizabeth Strout, Gospel of Luke, Jacques Pepin, Kirstin Chen, Mark Zuckerberg, Monsignor Oliver McGready, ParaSocial, The Social Network

• Book Review: My Friends by Fredrik Backman

  My Friends (Atria Books, May 6, 2025) is the second book I’ve read by Swedish author Fredrik Backman (translated by Neil Smith). In its almost two months since publication it has garnered a solid average of 4.52 stars in Goodreads with over 45,000 ratings and over 9,800 reviews. At this point, does it really matter…

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  June 23, 2025

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  A Man Called Ove, abuse, Agatha Christie, AJ Pearce, Ann Patchett, ARC, art, Artist, Atria, book-review, books, death, Elinor Lipman, Elizabeth Strout, fiction, Fredrik Backman, Goodreads, grief, illustrator, Kindle, literature, My Friends, Neil Smith, NetGalley, novel, poverty, reading, translator, writer, writing

• Book Review: Rachel to the Rescue by Elinor Lipman

  I’ve been a devoted fan of Elinor Lipman since 1988. I had just moved from Louisiana to Maryland for a new job in exciting downtown Bethesda. I lived near the Bethesda Metro and walked to my office building just a block from the Metro’s food court. Between work and home I had to pass a…

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  February 22, 2025

  books, Essay

  book-review, books, Elinor Lipman, essays, fiction, library, literature, muckraker, novel, political climate, politics, Rachel to the Rescue, reading, Trump, tweets, twitter, X

• My Top Ten of 2024

  With only two days of 2024 left, I think my reading stats are pretty set in stone, unless I finish off one more book before the ball drops on New Year’s Eve so I can end on an even number. I had a good reading year but my total number of books is a bit…

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  December 29, 2024

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  Amazon, Ann Napolitano, ARC, audiobook, book-review, books, Deborah Serra, Diane Parrish, Ebook, Elinor Lipman, Elizabeth Strout, Evie Woods, fiction, Katherine Center, Kindle, literature, NetGalley, novel, reading, Ruth Reichl, Sophia Kinsella, Susan Rieger], top ten, writer, writing

• Book Review: Back After This by Linda Holmes

  This yet-to-be published new book, Back After This, is about the world of podcasting, but that is not why I requested an ARC from NetGalley. When I read the description, I saw that it was by the same author as Evvie Drake Starts Over (Ballantine, 2019), a book I read in 2020 and loved. Somewhere…

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  December 10, 2024

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  #Currently Reading, Back After This, blind dates, Bon Appetit, book-review, books, brand collaboration, Christopher Kimball, cooking, covid, dog, Elinor Lipman, Evvie Drake Starts Over, fiction, Flying Solo, food, Goodreads, Great Dane, Kaytee Cobb, Linda Holmes, Meredith Monday Schwartz, Milk Street Radio, NetGalley, novel, podcast, reading, rom-com, Romance, social media, teaching, Washington DC, What Should I Read Next, writer, writing