Lori & Julia's Book Club

1/7: "The Woman Outside My Door" by Rachel Ryan

12/23: "The Project" by Stacey Potter

12/17: "Ashes Ashes" by Murphy Morrison

12/8: "Layla" by Colleen Hoover

12/2: "The Vacation: by T.M. Logan

11/24: "In a Holidaze" by Christina Lauren

11/19: "The Haunting of Brynn Wilder" by Wendy Webb

11/11: "Little Cruelties" by Liz Nugent

11/5: "Boop and Eve's Road Trip" by Mary Helen Sheriff

10/27: "Luster" by Ravel Leilani

10/20: "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue" by V.E. Schwab

10/13: "Invisible Girl" by Lisa Jewell

10/8: "Funeral for a Friend" by Brian Freeman

10/7: "The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes" by Elissa Sloan

10/1: "Jenna Takes The Fall" by A.R. Taylor

9/23: "The Lions of Fifth Avenue" by Fiona Davis

9/10: "One by One" by Ruth Ware

8/26: "Friends and Strangers" by J. Courtney Sullivan

8/4/20: "The Heir Affair" by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

7/28/20: "A Star is Bored" by Byron Lane

7/15/20: "The Sweeney Sister" by Lian Dolan

7/13/20: "Golden Cage" by Camilla Läckberg

7/10/20: "The Wedding Thief" by Mary Simses

7/8/20: "The Man With Lightening In His Eye" by Sid Gasteaux

7/8/20: "The Man With Lightening In His Eye" by Sid Gateaux

6/23/20: "28 Summers" by Elin Hilderbrand

6/18/20: "The Happy Ever After Playlist" by Abbey Jimenez

6/16/20: "Sea Wife" by Amity Gaige

6/10/20: "Dance Away With Me" by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

5/21/20: "The Women With Silver Wings" by Katherine Sharp Landdeck

4/28/20 "Thief River Falls" by Brian Freeman

We love Brian Freeman’s books (the Lt. Stride series!) but this new stand-alone story is really compelling. Great heroine and a compulsive page turner. Book summary courtesy of Goodreads: “Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls, named after her rural Minnesota hometown, Lisa is secluded in her remote house as she struggles with the loss of her entire family: a series of tragedies she calls the “Dark Star.” Then a na...

4/22/20: "Been There, Married That" by Gigi Levangie

We have been fans of Gigi with her other books (The Starter Wife). This is basically a roman a clef about her life as a wife when she was married to Hollywood uber producer, Brian Grazer. Just a fun book with hilarious storytelling about the crazy world of Hollywood. Summary courtesy of Macmillan Publishers: “In a world where therapist look like the Real Housewives of Equinox, where friends dispense Xanax like Pez, and where a woman’s status is directly linked to the how few carbs she eats…ca...

4/14/20 - "Actress" by Anne Enright

A somewhat depressing story but life is sometime depressing and the actors world does not always end in stardom, does it? Maybe our feeling on this one is because we read at the start of corona…. Summary courtesy of GOODREADS: “From the Man Booker Prize–winner, a brilliant and moving novel about celebrity, sexual power, and a daughter’s search to understand her mother’s hidden truths. Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter Norah retraces her mother’s celebrated caree...

4/8/20 "Strike Me Down" by Mindy Mejia

We loved (again) another suspense novel from Mindy! It was suspenseful, sexy and a great story (set in Mpls!). Left guessing until the end! Summary courtesy of Goodreads: “From the critically acclaimed author of Leave No Trace, the “nail-biting page-turner that grabs you early and never lets go” (The Real Book Spy), comes a visceral thriller where a high stakes crime triggers a woman’s complicated and potentially deadly search for the truth. Nora Trier catches thieves. As a forensic accou...

4/2/20 - "In Five Years" by Rebecca Serle

We both loved this book and it is perfect for fans of ME BEFORE YOU and ONE DAY --- a striking, powerful and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever. Here’s the set up courtesy of Reading Group Guides: “Where do you see yourself in five years? When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Cohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later...

3/27/20 "Darling Rose Gold" by Stephanie Wrobel

This book was recommended by the author of the Sun Down Motel and we enjoyed this dark twisty book. *Note: If you watched THE ACT on Hulu starring Patricia Arquette this novel is inspired by the true story of Dee Blanchard and her daughter, Gypsy. Book summation courtesy of AP: “The phenomenon Munchausen syndrome by proxy — in which a parent purposely makes a child ill to gain sympathy and attention — receives a fresh update in Stephanie Wrobel’s excellent debut. The psychological thriller “D...

3/18 "Red Lotus" by Chris Bohjalian

3/11/20- "The Sun Down Motel" by Simone St. James

This is a really good creepy story which blends a mystery with a ghost story! “The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before, in this new atmospheric suspense novel from the national bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. Upstate NY, 1982. Every small town like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel. Some customers are from out of town, passing through on their way to someplace bett...

3/5/20 - "The Other Mrs." by Mary Kubica

Propulsive and addictive, and perfect for fans of “You,” THE OTHER MRS. is the twisty new psychological thriller from Mary Kubica, the New York Times bestselling author of THE GOOD GIRL. This book is also being adapted for a tv show on Netflix. “She tried to run, but she can’t escape the other Mrs. Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to small-town Maine when their neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home. The murder rocks their tiny coastal is...

2/29/20 - "Minor Catastrophes & Other Dramas" by Kathleen West

A very binge’able book! We promise, you will not want to put down once you start reading. There is no doubt this will be sold to Hollywood. “A wry and cleverly observed debut novel about the privileged bubble that is Liston Heights High--the micro-managing parents, the overworked teachers, and the students caught in the middle--and the fallout for each of them when the bubble finally bursts. Isobel Johnson knows helicopter parents like Julia Abbott--a stage mom whose world revolves around i...

2/11/20 - "The Majesties" bu Tiffany Tsao

We loved this dark twisted book! BOOK BLURBS…. “A dark, delicious tale that will creep its way into your brain and leave you examining your own soul for signs of moral rot. I downed it in one greedy shot.” —Jade Chang, author of The Wangs vs. the World and “Tiffany Tsao’s visceral debut…reads a bit like Crazy Rich Asians if the book began with familicide instead of romance. . . Why not start off the new year with the perfect tear-it-all-down read?” —CrimeReads “In this riveting tale about...

2/7/20 "How Quickly She Disappears" by Raymond Fleischmann

A mystery thriller from a first time novelist that kept us turning the pages as fast as we could! “It’s 1941 in small-town Alaska and Elisabeth Pfautz is alone. She’s living far from home, struggling through an unhappy marriage, and she spends her days tutoring her precocious young daughter. Elisabeth’s twin sister disappeared without a trace twenty years earlier, and Elisabeth’s life has never recovered. Cryptic visions of her sister haunt her dreams, and Elisabeth’s crushing loneliness gro...

1/30/20 "Big Lies in a Small Town" by Diane Chamberlain

We loved this book so much. A drama and a mystery with incredible storytelling from one of our favorite authors. “North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold—until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post offic...

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1/22/20 "Boys and Sex" by Peggy Orenstein

1/22/20 "Followers" by Megan Angelo

1/16 "Recipe for the Perfect Wife" by Karma Brown

1/7 /20 - "The Twenty-ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra" by Alex Messenger

One of the most vivid first person accounts of wilderness survival we have read. The tale of six young men on a canoeing expedition in northern Canada—and the bear attack that almost killed one of them. “Messenger was 17 when he embarked on a journey with his comrades on a remote stretch of rivers and lakes in Nunavut, Canada. From the beginning, this chronicle is populated by original observations and salutes to a landscape rich with possibilities. The group spent the first few days getting ...

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12/18 - "Nothing More Dangerous" by Allen Eskens

Definitely one of our top 10 books of 2019. This coming of age story takes place in mid-1970’s Missouri and has been described as “Stand By Me” meets “To Kill A Mockingbird” (and we agree with that description)! Racism, class and a murder mystery are all explored in this very poignant story The title comes from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. quote “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity”. Now we want Michael B. Jordan to option this b...