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PERFECT ON PAPER, by Janet Goss

June 7, 2012

CROSSWORDS, VINTAGE COUTURE, pigs spice up a fun tale of a Manhattan artist trying to choose among her suitors.

Grade: SOLID B

PERFECT ON PAPER
New American Library
2012

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THE POSSIBILITY OF YOU, by Pamela Redmond

May 9, 2012

MULTIGENERATIONAL FAMILY SAGA takes on class, race, adoption, reproductive rights, but never quite comes alive.

Grade: SOLID B

THE POSSIBILITY OF YOU
Gallery Books
2012

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SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER, by Grace Octavia

May 6, 2012

MAGNIFICENTLY ENTERTAINING SOAP-OPERA tale of a woman finding a secret society/support group for spurned wives.

Grade: B PLUS

SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER
Kensington/Dafina
2011

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GOSSIP, by Beth Gutcheon

April 6, 2012

COMPULSIVELY READABLE, STYLISH novel traces fifty years of friendship among well-heeled Manhattan women.

Grade: B PLUS

GOSSIP
William Morrow
2012

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CONTENTS MAY HAVE SHIFTED, by Pam Houston

March 5, 2012

PAM HOUSTON’S NOVEL mixes travel narratives with tales of difficult relationships; alas, vaguely unsatisfying.

Grade: B MINUS

CONTENTS MAY HAVE SHIFTED: A NOVEL
W. W. Norton & Company
2012

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THE TIME IN BETWEEN, by María Dueñas

February 28, 2012

SWEEPING EPIC ADVENTURE follows a Spanish woman from poverty to success as a couturiere to wartime espionage.

Grade: B PLUS

THE TIME IN BETWEEN
Atria
2011

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IN MALICE, QUITE CLOSE by Brandi Lynn Ryder

February 16, 2012

ART-WORLD SOAP OPERA is a compulsively readable pageturner depite its over-the-top melodramatic plot.

Grade: SOLID B

IN MALICE, QUITE CLOSE
Viking
2011

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WHAT ALICE FORGOT, by Liane Moriarty

January 31, 2012

CHARMING, SURPRISINGLY THOUGHT-PROVOKING Australian women’s fiction tale of a suburban mom with amnesia.

Grade: SOLID B

WHAT ALICE FORGOT
Putnam/Amy Einhorn Books
2011

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THE PILE OF STUFF AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRS, by Christina Hopkinson

December 28, 2011

PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE in crisis combines a breezy, humorous chick-lit style with unexpectedly deep insights.

Grade: SOLID B

THE PILE OF STUFF AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRS
Grand Central
2011

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THE AMERICAN HEIRESS, by Daisy Goodwin

November 6, 2011

SWEEPING HISTORICAL ROMANCE of an American heiress and an English duke has old-fashioned Whartonesque charm.

Grade: B PLUS

THE AMERICAN HEIRESS
St. Martin's
2011

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