Category: Book Reviews
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Review | Molly’s Game by Molly Bloom
This is a true story about Molly Bloom and it reads like a TV movie. Young girl has high, overachieving siblings, wants to prove herself, gain the freedom to do what she wants. Gets involved with the wrong crowd but is addicted to the money, and loses her friends and relationships, then gets convicted by…
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Review | Writing That Works by Kenneth Roman & Joel Raphaelson
A guide for learning how to say what you want to say in a succinct and clear way. The book focuses on how to write memos, letters, presentations, speeches and the like that have impact and get things done. This book wasn’t really my choice to read, it was one on a list of “Professional…
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Review | Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder by Kerryn Mayne
Lenny Marks has a very structured and orderly life. She works at a primary school, goes straight home watches Friends and Buffy, plays scrabble with her imaginary room mate Monica Gellar (guess where she got that name from, hah!). At the encouragement of her foster mum she starts to open herself to potential friendships, and…
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Review | Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Elizabeth Zott is a chemist in the early 1960s. When it wasn’t right or proper for women to be chemists. She meets the one man, Calvin, who sees beyond her gender to her brilliant mind. They fall in love, but sadly he dies, leaving her with a gift – their daughter. Elizabeth gets fired because…
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Review | Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
This book is a non-fiction account of three women’s issues, secrets, and desires. It is three disconnected stories, that talk of situations that many other women will have found themselves in, so in that way the book is unsurprising and unexceptional.