"The Beginner's Goodbye" by Anne Tyler

The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler is a story about a man who has his wife die when a tree falls on their house. He works in the family vanity publishing business, turning out issues to guide beginners on various stuff. I thought this was going to be so much better than it is. It's okay but nothing great, read it if you want. At least it's a quick read.
(Gerard's review, 3 stars)

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"Catching Fireflies" by Sherryl Woods

Catching Fireflies by Sherryl Woods (A Sweet Magnolia Novel) is about a small town romance between a doctor and a high school English teacher who both are concerned about a girl in her class who is being bullied, both at school and on the Internet.  This did not grab me like I expected it would.  I know this is a popular series so perhaps my expectations were higher than they should have been, but it seemed to plod along and the dialogue seemed lame to me.  I enjoyed the storyline about the bullying more than I did the romance, but even that lacked spark.  It was more about how the adults stepped up to stop the bullying than it was about being bullied.  I know Sherryl Woods is a "Bestselling Author" but I was not thrilled with this one.
(Karen's review, my rating 3 stars)

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"This is Where I Leave You" by Jonathan Tropper

Disappointing

This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper centers on a dad's death bed plea that he wanted his grown up kids and his wife to spend seven days together like a real family. I enjoyed the beginning very much and thought it had a lot of promise. The kids got on each other and their significant others. Parts were funny and sad as well; however, I just scanned through the last 100 pages which was about who was having sex with whom. I'm not into reading that and felt I had better books to read. If the author had stuck with the main premise, it would have been much better in my opinion. It also had offensive language so I can't really recommend this. Read it at your own risk.
(Gerard's review, rating 3 stars)

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"The Light Between Oceans" by M. L. Stedman

In The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Steadman, Isabel lives on a lonely lighthouse, miles away from everybody. She has tried three times to have a baby and it ended in tragedy all three times. Then one day a ship crashes and her husband finds a dead man and an unhurt girl baby. What comes next? Here are a few questions: (1) Does Isabel raise the baby as her own, after all, who will be the wiser? (2) Is the baby's real mother alive? (3) Will Isabel's husband report this and do the right thing?

This is a real page turner and enjoyed how Isabel and her husband handled this situation. You will want to keep reading this book--it's a good one!
(Gerard's review, rating 5+ stars)

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Tuesday Teasers: Two Fiction and one Non-Fiction

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should  Be Reading. Anyone can play along, so I thought  I  would play for fun! Just do the following

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on  that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away!   You don’t  want  to  ruin the  book for others!)
• Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can  add the book to their TBR  Lists  if they  like your teaser.   

Gerard's:

   And there he was, her tiny son, teetering near the edge, a ghostly image in the fog.
   "Noah," she whispered, suddenly terrified, her fingers sliding down the pane as panic surged within.

Taken from page 9 of You Don't Want To Know by Lisa Jackson.

Karen's:

Katie squirmed uncomfortably. "Misty shouldn't get suspended," she protested weakly. "Not when there are, what do they call 'em, extenuating circumstances."

Taken from page 35 of Catching Fireflies by Sherryl Woods (A Sweet Magnolia novel).

It is an incontestable fact that you are no longer young.  One month from today, you will be turning sixty-four, and although that is not excessively old, not what anyone would consider to be an advanced old age, you cannot stop yourself from thinking about all the others who never managed to get as far as you have.

  Taken from page page 2 of Winter Journal by Paul Auster.  (I only read up to page 8 and quit on this one--didn't care for the lengthy sentences--this is actually one of the shorter ones!)

Happy Reading!