Great Book! Slow read at first but then got very interesting.

Anita was an artist married to an artist. husband was jealous of her art and as a result was always putting it down. He eventually kills her. Racqual is an art student doing her thesis on Anita's husband until her professor tells her about how Anita died. this changes the way she does her thesis. Raqual manages to get Anita's work displayed even though her husband doesn't want it

Lisa See once more takes a piece of Chinese history, this time in America, and brings it to life. It's a dark history told through three women. Moon, Dove and Petal's lives intersect in the violent Pueblo of Los Angeles. I found the structure of the book hard to follow, but perhaps it was the audio that made it more difficult.

Jodie already killed once for her sister. Jodie just married rich and renowned psychologist Roy Davies and they should be living in newlywed bliss, however Jodie has an agenda. Debbie, Jodie’s sister was married to Roy and ended up dead and it ruled a suicide. Jodie is there to make Roy pay for murdering her sister. When the same facial disfigurement starts to happen to Jodie that happened to Debbie the story takes a surprising twist. Who killed Debbie? Can Jodie make Roy pay for the death of her sister? Read and find out.

A nice, light but complex, easy summer read! Revolving stories about an author who, after a surprise divorce request from her NBA star husband, finds out that she has a half-sister in Italy who needs her help. She and her friends travel to the Amalfi coast to meet and take care of her sister... The description of Italy is relaxingly pretty as a number of intermingled stories unravel in her life...

Catherine Ryan Hyde is one of my favorite authors, but I found it very difficult to get into this book. I put it down several times and went on to read other books before finally finishing it. It's about a journalist, Amelia, who is a recently divorced mom of Jaden, a seven year old boy. She takes him to Mexico to track down E.L. Swann aka Ella, who wrote a very famous novel 30 years before and then vanished. The book is about Amelia and Ella's relationship and Ella's relationship with Jaden whom she sees as her muse. I did not find the novel as complelling as Hyde's other works, such as Michael Without Apology.

You know how with some books you are so engrossed in them that don't want to put them down -- well for me this was not one of them. I found this story, despite all the glowing reviews, just okay and a bit of a slog. Perhaps my expectations were just too high for this story of two childhood neighbors and friends and their divergent journeys through their lives.

John Searles writes a fictionalized account of Helen Gurley Brown's rise to the top as editor-in-chief (since 1965) and creator of " Cosmopolitan" magazine as we know it. In the decades that she gained reknown, she supported and freed women's sexual independence and self-awareness out of the confinements of the 1950's, to the glittering decades of the 70's, 80's and 90's.

Louisa grew up in an affluent and respected family in Maine. Since then her and her family have spent every summer in the Fitzgerald’s large house on the shore. This year Louisa and the kids go to the house themselves but not all it right. Louisa’s father, a respected judge has Alzheimer’s and her mom is pretending it’s alright. Louisa and her husband are arguing over money. Matty gets his heart broken and Louisa finds out that she has a half sister from an affair her father had years ago. Kristy comes to Maine to confront her father after her mother’s death. She did not expect to fall in love and learn to deal with the news about her father and his family. This was a very entertaining story and I recommend reading it

Fun Read with an interesting story. About a young woman in the 60s who studied Journalism in college but who could not get a job at a Newspaper except in the typing Pool. Eventually she uncovers a story that may lead to her getting a byline with a Male Journalist. You will just have to read this book to find out what happens