A new reading list from Ramona DeFelice Long. To read Ramona’s comments about each book in sequence, start here at Day 1: https://ramonadef.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/40-days-of-book-praise-day-1/ This is my reading list for the rest of the year, starting with Daphne DuMaurier’s The Rebecca Notebooks. Hours and days of fine reading here.
For 40 days, I chose books by and about women from my personal book shelf and wrote brief reviews with a plot summary, plus why it was a good reading choice for women.
Below is a full list of the 40 books I reviewed. Each includes a short description–a log line–to tell each title’s genre and capture what it is about.
40 Days of Book Praise – Reading List
Joan Blos’ A GATHERING OF DAYS is a middle grade epistolary novel chronicling the hardships and joys of fourteen-year-old Carrie and her farm family in 1850s New England.
Anne Carroll George’s THIS ONE AND MAGIC LIFE is a Southern novel about a family that gathers for a funeral where the deceased’s last wish uncovers a terrible secret.
Elinor Lipman’s THE DEARLY DEPARTED is a women’s novel about returning home, and how the sudden death of two parents allow two children to…
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