Welcome to another edition of Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by Jill, at Breaking the Spine.
Each week, we share our excitement about upcoming books, and visit everyone else to see what they’re celebrating.
Today I’m spotlighting The Red Book, by Deborah Copaken Kogan, a book dubbed “The Big Chill meets The Group.” To be released on 4/3/12.
The Big Chill meets The Group in Deborah Copaken Kogan’s wry, lively, and irresistible new novel about a once-close circle of friends at their twentieth college reunion.
Clover, Addison, Mia, and Jane were roommates at Harvard until their graduation in 1989. Clover, homeschooled on a commune by mixed-race parents, felt woefully out of place. Addison yearned to shed the burden of her Mayflower heritage. Mia mined the depths of her suburban ennui to enact brilliant performances on the Harvard stage. Jane, an adopted Vietnamese war orphan, made sense of her fractured world through words.Twenty years later, their lives are in free fall. Clover, once a securities broker with Lehman, is out of a job and struggling to reproduce before her fertility window slams shut. Addison’s marriage to a writer’s-blocked novelist is as stale as her so-called career as a painter. Hollywood shut its gold-plated gates to Mia, who now stays home with her four children, renovating and acquiring faster than her director husband can pay the bills. Jane, the Paris bureau chief for a newspaper whose foreign bureaus are now shuttered, is caught in a vortex of loss.
Like all Harvard grads, they’ve kept abreast of one another via the red book, a class report published every five years, containing brief autobiographical essays by fellow alumni. But there’s the story we tell the world, and then there’s the real story, as these former classmates will learn during their twentieth reunion weekend, when they arrive with their families, their histories, their dashed dreams, and their secret yearnings to a relationship-changing, score-settling, unforgettable weekend.
What are you waiting for? I hope you’ll stop on by and share…..
Sounds like a lot is going on. Thanks for stopping by.
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Definitely…glad you could visit today, Jo, and enjoy the rest of your week.
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Sounds interesting! Hope you can read it soon 🙂
Stephanie
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Oh, me too, Stephanie….thanks for stopping by, and have a great week.
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I’m going to have to check this out. It looks amazing.
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I think so, too, Vicariously…thanks for stopping by and enjoy your week.
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Nice choice. I liked the Big Chill. This could be good.
Thanks for sharing and for stopping by my blog!
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Oh, me too, Andrea. That comparison really drew me in. Thanks for visiting, and enjoy the rest of your week.
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a commune by mixed-race parents? sounds very interesting!
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Wow! This sounds really cool. I’m going to have to remember this one.
Thanks for stopping by my blog today.
~Danica Page
TakingIit One Page at a Time
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I think it sounds cool, too. Thanks for visiting, Danica, and enjoy your reading.
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Haven’t heard of this one before! Hope you love it once it releases!
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I think I will, Jessica….thanks for stopping by, and enjoy the rest of your week.
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It´s the first time that I heard of it, sounds interesting.
thanks for stopping by
Adriana @ Reading Fictional
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I don’t remember where I found it, but I love the cover and the blurb grabbed me….thanks for stopping by, Adriana. Enjoy your week.
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I’m more of a YA girl but the blurb is really an attention grabber.
Thank you for stopping by. ^_^
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Thanks for stopping by to check it out, Ayanami….enjoy your reading!
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This is a new one to me! Sounds pretty neat!
Giselle
Xpresso Reads
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Thanks for visiting, Giselle…hope you have a great reading week.
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Sounds like an interesting read! I’m sure it’s a great pick:)
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Thanks for stopping by, Rebecca…looking forward to it. Have a great week.
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