WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES BY KAREN JOY FOWLER

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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

by Karen Joy Fowler

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Meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; as a young woman, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover. Something happened, something so awful she has buried it in the recesses of her mind.

Now her adored older brother is a fugitive, wanted by the FBI for domestic terrorism. And her once lively mother is a shell of her former self, her clever and imperious father now a distant, brooding man.

And Fern, Rosemary’s beloved sister, her accomplice in all their childhood mischief? Fern’s is a fate the family, in all their innocence, could never have imagined.

FLAPPERS BY JUDITH MACKRELL

Miley, I’d like you to meet Josephine. Lindsay, allow me to introduce Tallulah. Kim K, this is Zelda.

They are your mothers — your forebears in style, scandal, shock and awe. Perhaps you think you invented outrageous behavior, but these women were delighting and horrifying the masses decades before anyone had so much as breathed the word “twerk.” And take note: They did it better, with more wit and panache than has ever graced the red carpet of the MTV Video Music Awards.

Josephine Baker, Tallulah Bankhead, Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Zelda Fitzgerald and Tamara de Lempicka are the marquee characters in“Flappers,” Judith Mackrell’s new account of the grand dames of the 1920s. I’m not sure I came away convinced that their generation was dangerous, as the subtitle argues, but they seem to have had a hell of a lot of fun. Mackrell, a British dance critic, chose as her subjects women of such antics and ambition that one can’t help but want to throw on a few baubles, walk the streets of Paris and sip a gin fizz in their raucous company.

The book is amazing.  It takes time to read but I'm loving it!!!!!

ONE PLUS ONE BY JOJO MOYES

Suppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied, and your math whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can’t afford to pay for. That’s Jess’s life in a nutshell—until an unexpected knight in shining armor offers to rescue them. Only Jess’s knight turns out to be Geeky Ed, the obnoxious tech millionaire whose vacation home she happens to clean. But Ed has big problems of his own, and driving the dysfunctional family to the Math Olympiad feels like his first unselfish act in ages . . . maybe ever. One Plus One is Jojo Moyes at her astounding best. You’ll laugh, you’ll weep, and when you flip the last page, you’ll want to start all over again.

INSIDE OF A DOG ( WHAT DOGS SEE, SMELL and KNOW) by ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ

This book looks at the word of dogs from the dog's point of view.

It teaches us about the dog's cognitive and perceptual abilities and then draws us a picture of what it is like to be a dog. It discusses how a dog perceives their daily worlds, each other and that other quirky animal, the human.

It's an audio book and it's wonderful.