November already?! That means it’s time for the LWD book club selections. This month I’ve selected a self-help book I’ve been meaning to read for years, a cozy novel by a favorite author and a seasonal short story.
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LWD NOVEMBER BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS
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Finding Your Own North Star by Martha Beck
“Martha Beck has helped hundreds of clients find their own North Star, fulfill their potential, and live more joyfully. Now, she shares her step-by-step program that will help you take the exhilarating and frightening journey to your own ideal life. Finding Your Own North Star will teach you how to read your internal compasses, articulate your core desires, identify and repair the unconscious beliefs that may be blocking your progress, nurture your intuition, and cultivate your dreams from the first magical flicker of an idea through the planning and implementation of a more satisfying life. Martha Beck offers thoroughly tested case studies, questionnaires, exercises, and her own trademark wit and wisdom to guide you every step of the way.”
2. An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving – Louisa May Alcott
“When their parents are called away to care for an ailing grandmother, seven children continue preparations for the family’s Thanksgiving meal, hoping to surprise and cheer their parents on their return. And although the plum pudding is rock-hard and the turkey stuffing bitter, the children’s efforts are appreciated, and the holiday gathering is enjoyed by all. A high-spirited, good-humored account of a rural, 19th-century New Hampshire Thanksgiving, this story demonstrates Alcott’s belief that health, hard work, and cheery good will are of greater value than wealth and position. Her description of children gives the impression that she both understood and liked them.”
3. A Spool of Blue Thread – Anne Tyler
“It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . . . ” This is how Abby Whitshank always describes the day she fell in love with Red in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate an indefinable kind of specialness, but like all families, their stories reveal only part of the picture: Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. From Red’s parents, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to the grandchildren carrying the Whitshank legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four generations of lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn house that has always been their anchor.
Happy November reading, my friends!
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I’m starting this month off with reading a couple of books I didn’t quite have enough time to read during October, and then I have a couple I promised to do reviews for. I’ll probably read the Louisa May Alcott story after I’ve read those. Beyond that, I haven’t decided for sure what I plan to read in November.
If you’re interested, my book reviews post for October goes up on Sunday.
I’ll be sure to check your book reviews post. I’m currently reading something I agreed to review. This is the first one I’ve done (where I was sent the book free to review) so I could use some pointers.
Writing a review after being given a free copy to review isn’t much different to doing so without having been given one. Although, I will point out that Amazon does seem to like it if you add a disclaimer at the bottom of your review stating that you were given a copy, but this in no way influenced your review. It’s not essential, but doing so is often advised. Beyond that, just do what you do when you review something normally.
Thanks for the info!
You’re welcome!