The setting is VietNam, a lovely place to visit, before the conflict broke out. This well written book follows the humanitarian efforts of American wives in the early ‘60s. The Main Character is Tricia, a young graduate of Marymount and new bride who accompanies her husband to Viet Nam. Roles of women at the time, decisions made, and strength of family evolve. This is a fast read that had me recollecting life in the ‘60s. Alice is a master storyteller.

This is delightful story about women who are trying to find themselves after WWl. Takes place in British seaside town. During the war, women were working at men's jobs. Now the mn have returned and women are being displaced. Its a warm romantic story. Easy to read and very charming.

12. Nestling by Nat Cassidy. When new parents Anna and her husband Reid won the lottery for affordable housing, in Manhattan, they were ecstatic to be moving into an amazing and historically famous apartment building called the Deptford. That’s where their lives were changed forever.

Joshilyn Jackson brings her main character Paula to life with all her attributes and deficiencies on full display in the book The Opposite Of Everyone. Paula has gone from a beginning as a young impressionable child of a dreamy, impractical, unrealistic mother to a tough-as-nails divorce attorney. Along the way she gains and loses people and relationships, but is always in control. Or is she?? A very absorbing story with a look into a very unusual life ....

I saw the author on the Drew Barrymore show and the author made sense of life and how a person would think in a positive way on a daily basis. Oprah's name as co author is misleading. Enjoyed some of the reflections about appreciating life more and wanting less. Lots of reflections on gratitude for things obtained without constantly trying to use things for happiness.

Three women met as young girls when they all spent time in the foster care system at the home of Miss Holly Fairchild, a psychological disturbed and emotionally abusive caregiver. Jessica, was sent there following the death of her parents at the young age of 5. She is so intent on being loved, she accepts and complies with the emotionally and physically damaging demands put on her. After several years she is joined by two other girls, and the three, form an unbreakable bond, giving them the strength to expose what has been going on. They are removed from the foster home, but not before they have been emotionally and physically damaged, by Miss Fairchild's psychological games. Twenty-five years later each of the girls gets a call from the police that when the farmhouse they grew up in is demolished a skeleton is fond. Each girl has developed issues from their shared experience in foster care, but they all take the trip to the farmhouse to help the police and perhaps to find some closure, and unravel the truth of their past and perhaps some peace in their futures.

There's something about the way this guy writes mysteries that I really enjoy. This is only my fourth of his many books. So, a woman goes missing and guess who's the primary suspect. The husband, of course. Then, six years passes, and there's a sighting. Or is there? We're taken on a journey from how the story originated up to how it ends. Yes, there are twists, but I think they're smoothly woven into the fabric of the story. Very enjoyable.

I had always like the movie that this book turned into, but I had never read the novel. This was a nice short read. I liked how it reminded me of the film and talked about everything in New York City. It mentioned Veselka, which makes the best perogies in the city, though they taste even better sometime before dawn. A nice easy read.

The book is about Stella and her dull life in New York. Her self absorbed single mother has died and left a conditional will that sends Stella to Paris. The book is fiction but the most important artists, writers and culinary figures of the 80’s are brought to life. The famous bookstore Shakespeare and Company is also brought to life and described so vividly. The author takes you on an adventure of food, art, museums, wine and fashion and self discovery.

I really enjoyed this book about foster girls who forge a close relationship together and about their strained relationship with their horrible step mother. It is also a good mystery/ suspense. I listened to the audible since I always enjoy the Australian accented reader.