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Hello everyone it’s Friday! Today I’m sharing the next five physical books on my TBR that I should get to within the next month. ⁣ ⁣ ⏰ Three Hours - Rosamund Lupton⁣ This is the story of a school under siege from a gunman and what happens in a three hour time period from multiple perspectives. ⁣ ⁣ ❓Pivot Point - Kasie West⁣ This YA novel follows Addie Coleman whom when faced with a choice to make, can look into the future and assess both potential outcomes.⁣ ⁣ 💦 The Water Cure - Sophie Mackintosh⁣ This has been described as The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Virgin Suicides and follows three sisters on an isolated island raised to fear men. It’s had mixed reviews but I’m intrigued!⁣ ⁣ 👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 The Most Fun We Ever Had - Claire Lombardo ⁣ Long listed for The Women’s Prize For Fiction this is a family drama filled with rivalry and secrets. ⁣ ⁣ 😱 The Keeper - Jessica Moor⁣ This is described as a literary thriller about a young woman pulled dead from the water. It’s thought to be a suicide by the police but the employees of a domestic violence shelter where the deceased worked disagree.⁣ ⁣ Have you read any of these books? I’d love to know! Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. #bookstagram #booklover #bookworm #bookstagrammer #tbrpile #threehours #rosamundlupton #pivotpoint #kasiewest #thewatercure #sophiemackintosh #themostfunweeverhad #clairelombardo #thekeeper #jessicamoor #readingnext https://www.instagram.com/p/CAyVsGXArn-/?igshid=3k3mrbj3dp4x

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Happy #forthcomingfriday, book lovers! 🥶 It's bitterly cold in Chicago again, the perfect weather for cozying up inside with a big, juicy novel. Today we're digging into THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD, a multi-generational family saga set against the backdrop of Chicago, Evanston and Oak Park. Claire Lombardo is a keen observer of human nature, and the dynamics among her characters are fine-tuned and beautifully wrought. You'll find this deeply satisfying portrait of a family (Chicago's answer to Celeste Ng's LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE) on our shelves on June 25th. 🍂 #clairelombardo #themostfunweeverhad #bookstagram #bibliophile #indiebookstore (at Baker Miller) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtoE8ObnQFx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kzq092mc0wpw

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I love to share good news, and even more, sharing great news, like the foreign rights sale of a wonderful new novel by a great young writer who happens to also be a family friend. Three cheers for Claire Lombardo and her book, THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD! @claire_lombardo #novel #fiction #themostfunweeverhad #iowawriters #september12 #iowacity #cityofliterature https://www.instagram.com/p/BnovE6tHrip/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jucfi9z45oqq

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#AmyAdams y #LauraDern protagonizaran serie @HBO #TheMostFunWeEverHad √ Entérate de los detalles accediendo al link de la Bio. #musicacinetv https://www.instagram.com/p/B3sfilTn63E/?igshid=vxyyss1rcax8

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The Most Fun We Ever Had

A Stunning Debut Novel That is Slammed Full of Both Heart-wrenching and Joyful Moments.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

SUMMARY

Marilyn Connolly, an outgoing English major and David Sorenson, a shy premed student, fell in love and married in the 1970s, By 2016, their four adult daughters are each in turmoil and struggling with finding their way in the world. Wendy the oldest and a recent widow, had a troubled youth, but has a huge personality and is typically full of both sarcasm and alcohol. Violet, is the perfect stay-at-home-mom, but battles anxiety and self-doubt when the darkest part of her past resurfaces. Liza is a newly tenured professor, who finds herself pregnant with a baby she’s not sure she wants by a man she’s not sure she loves. Grace is the youngest daughter, who begins living a lie that no one in her family even suspects. Above it all, the daughters share the lingering fear that they will never find a love quite like their parents’.

“She’d given up so much and so little when she agreed to marry him, but he has been so fixated on having her that he had rarely stopped to consider what it would mean for her to allow herself to be had.”

“This is the problem with you,” she said finally. “You’re so nice until you’re not. And then you’re the biggest asshole on the planet.”

REVIEW

Hold on tight because THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD is a hefty family drama set in Chicago, and spread over half a century. It’s a serious reading commitment at 530 pages, but well worth the effort. The writing beautifully weaves the past and the present into a unique tapestry of one family’s story of significant life-altering events. I absolutely loved how many of the dramatic events in the story happened in the midst of the beautiful ginkgo tree in the Sorenson’s backyard.

The wide-breadth of characters are so well developed you may think that author Claire Lombardo was perhaps writing about your family or maybe the family next door. She certainly seems to knows her way around family dynamics. The family situations were realistic and relatable. As the youngest of four siblings in my own family, I could totally understand and appreciate Grace’s feelings as the forgotten child.

This debut novel is slammed full of both heart-wrenching and joyful moments. Lombardo easily captures the multitude of family feelings swirling around births, deaths, infidelities, secrets and lies.

My favorite part of the novel was the story involving Violet’s dark past coming to light. Don’t we all have some hidden secret we wish would stay buried forever? But what if...? And then there is Wendy, my favorite character, who loves to throw verbal bombs at family members and then delight in watching the implosions. But she so much more complicated that that! Loved her dynamic take charge personality! She certainly makes the story interesting...

I listened to the audio version of this book and initially found it a little difficult to follow as the story jumped from character to character and back and forth in time. After getting a grasp of the characters, all was good.

“He’s sorry. He’s embarrassed. He’s hungry. The Catholic trifecta. You’ve taught him well.”

And he realized, then, how silly it seemed that you could ever know another person—really know her—and how silly it was to think that he had any idea what it was like to be her, day after day.”

Publisher Doubleday/Penguin Random House Audio

Published June 25, 2019

Narrated Emily Rankin

Review www.bluestockingreviews.com

[africa-reads-blog]

Claire Lombardo's debut novel is a poignant story following the Sorenson family, consisting of Marilyn and David (the parents), and their four daughters, Wendy, Violet, Liza, and Grace. Each character has a unique personality, distinct and connected, and their actions collectively impact the family over the years. Marilyn and David are bound together by unparalleled love for each other. Marilyn sacrifices her career, leaving her studies midway, in order to care for her growing family. The story is narrated from two alternate timelines. The first is of the past where we follow Marilyn as a newly wedded wife and a new mother. The second is of the present time where we are introduced to the lives of Wendy, Violet, Liza, and Grace. Despite the privileges such as wealth and status that these characters are blessed with, they have their own struggles. Wendy is trying to get over the death of her husband, Miles often through unfulfilling relationships with men and alcohol to numb the pain she feels. Violet is trying to deal with her husband and two young children while a past secret threatens to tear her family apart. Liza is a professor with a fulfilling career but her love life is a mess. Her partner is suffering from depression forcing her to play the role of a caregiver to her partner as well as her unborn child. Grace, the baby of the family, is drained from the expectations that her family. A recent graduate who fails to get accepted at any university, she lies to her parents about commencing law school leading her to narrate a few more lies until it threatens to drive her insane with hatred for herself. Despite all these challenges, the family pulls through each struggle stronger because of the love and care they have for each other. There are family clashes due to the generation gap but beneath it all there is the hope that no matter what happens they will overcome it all. A wonderful story. #bookstagram #bookaddict #bookaddiction #booklove #booklover #booknerd #bookninja #bookdragon #booklioness #booklady #bookboss #bookmama #bookwoman #bookenchantress #bookenthusiast #bookbabe #bookdiva #bestreads2019 #clairelombardo #themostfunweeverhad #fiction (at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzuR3LCAeT0/?igshid=13mjas3u8s5f4

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Ein Familiendrama par excellence....

Ein Familiendrama par excellence.... @dtv_verlag @ClaireLombardo #Drama #Family #Daughters #LIfe #Lies #TheMostFunWeEverHad

Hallo liebe Freunde des Lesens,

kommen wir zu einem sehr reichhaltigen Debüt, was die Seitenanzahl betrifft. Die Autorin Claire Lombardo zeigt in ihrem ersten Roman eine Familie, die auf einmal von der Vergangenheit eingeholt wird und deren Leben in ein Chaos stürtzt. Erschienen ist das Buch beim DTV Verlag.

Inhalt:

Marilyn und David Sorenson sind seit vierzig Jahren glücklich verheiratet. Für…

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Hey everyone hope you’re doing well. Today I’m sharing the third part of my gigantic book haul. This lovely lot is part of the Women’s Prize long-list for 2020 and I’ve challenged myself to read all sixteen books. These were all given to me for my birthday from family and friends so thank you SO much to them for their generosity 😍Have you read any of these? I’d love to know your thoughts! #bookstagram #bookworm #bookhaul #womensprizeforfiction #womensprizelonglist #womensprize2020 #djinnpatrolonthepurpleline #deepaanappara #themostfunweeverhad #clairelombardo #actress #anneenright #dominicana #angiecruz #redatthebone #jacquelinewoodson #athousandships #nataliehaynes #howwedisappeared #jingjinglee #nightingalepoint #luangoldie #weather #jennyoffill https://www.instagram.com/p/B_2xtN4AHv8/?igshid=28x0j5nbd3uz

[bibliobethblog]

📖 BOOK REVIEW 📖⁣ ⁣ Hello everyone and hope your week is going well so far. Today I’m back with a review of The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo, which is on the Women’s Prize long-list this year and was a novel I was nervous yet determined to read.⁣ ⁣ Why was I nervous? Well, I’ve heard mixed things. Things that made me screw up my face and wonder if I could read it myself. Basically, it’s a family drama revolving around parents - Marilyn and David and their four daughters Wendy, Violet, Liza and Grace. The parents are madly in love and this love has an effect on the children for their entire lives. ⁣ ⁣ This all sounds very nice and perfectly lovely BUT there were some moments in the writing where I really did cringe, particularly in the beginning. I read out a passage to Mr B once and he told me to put the book down immediately 😂 Then there were other moments where a character would say something and I questioned the authenticity of it. In other words, would they really say that in that way in real life? I’m not so sure. ⁣ ⁣ After the above mentioned passage, I forced myself to continue and funnily enough, after about 100 pages, I became really invested in the characters, specifically the four daughters. I cared what they went through in the past, I was interested in what they were going through in the present and I was intrigued what their future might hold. ⁣ ⁣ Yes there were little quirks that could have been ironed out and yes, Marilyn and David were incredibly irritating at points! However, I think they might have needed to be like that for the reader to realise what effect their “perfect” relationship had on the rest of their family. And perhaps it wasn’t so perfect all the time?⁣ ⁣ Four stars 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 ⁣ ⁣ #bookstagram #booklover #bookworm #bookstagrammer #bookreview #themostfunweeverhad #clairelombardo #womensprizeforfiction #womensprizelonglist2020 #fourstarreads https://www.instagram.com/p/CCY7IZhAixq/?igshid=1a1axguk4f9pa

[franciscomaldo]

#AmyAdams y #LauraDern protagonizaran serie @HBO #TheMostFunWeEverHad √

Amy Adams / Imagen cortesía Dan MacMedan/WireImage

HBO ha puesto en el desarrollo de The Most Fun We Ever Had, un proyecto de serie de drama basado en el best seller del New York Times de  Claire Lombardo, desde Amy Adams y Bond Grupo de Entertainment de Stacy O’Neil y Laura Derny Jaywalker Pictures de Jayme Limones. Lombardo se une a escribir la adaptación de la serie y la producción…