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My Other Ex: A Tearful but Transcending Reading Experience Editors: Jessica Smock and Stephanie Sprenger Friendship ends. This is the dark secret of life, because it is one of those crucial moments where we feel most alone and most unlovable. No one else must go through these kind of transitions in life from sharing secrets whispered in the dark to avoiding eye contact and Facebook stalking. My Other Ex: Women’s True Stories of Losing and Leaving Friends was an eye-opener for me, therapeutic with the universalization of something that is often a cloistered, secret agony. In thirty-five essays real women [...]

Murder at Death Dorm  Author: Meg Cabot Ex-pop star, now plus size Assistant Dormitory Professor, Heather Wells is having a very bad day already. First, her rebound boyfriend, the athletic, vegan, carb counting Tad has somehow convinced her to get up at 6 in the morning for a run, and her uterus just may have fallen out along the way. It doesn’t look as though this day is going to get any better, either, because her boss has apparently been shot in the head over his morning brew of coffee. Meanwhile, the campus graduate school association is making a stink, [...]

Stellar Deep South Debut Author: Jenny Wingfield Sometimes I really treasure my book club. They force me out of my little comfort zones and make me read all sorts of things. Sometimes I also hate them for it, but not today. Because today I get to tell you about The Homecoming of Samuel Lake, a book I wouldn’t have touched were it not for this group of ladies. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake takes place in the Deep South of the 1950s. Willadee Lake and her three children are headed from their home in Louisiana, where her husband Samuel is [...]