{"id":6377,"date":"2024-02-29T06:29:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T06:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sometimesraw.com\/?p=6377"},"modified":"2024-02-29T06:29:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T06:29:48","slug":"book-thursday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sometimesraw.com\/?p=6377","title":{"rendered":".Book Thursday."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every season, there are those books everyone starts buzzing about: Gone Girl! The Goldfinch! Fifty Shades of Grey. They explode all over your social media feeds and populate the front tables at your local bookstore. (And eventually, they turn into movies.) So, just in time for spring, I rounded up five of some big, and most talked about books\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fates and Furies<\/a>\u00a0by Lauren Groff<\/strong>
There\u2019s a good chance you\u2019ve seen this book\u2019s cover in my Instagram feed (or if you haven\u2019t, that you will very soon). It graced the cover of last weekend\u2019s\u00a0Times Book Review<\/em>, where it received paragraph after paragraph of\u00a0glowing praise<\/a>. The story of a marriage told first from the husband\u2019s, then wife\u2019s, perspectives presents two very different accounts of the same relationship. If you love inventive prose, emotionally complex characters, plots with intricate puzzle pieces \u2014 or simply reading about relationships \u2014 this one is for you. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everybody Rise<\/a>\u00a0by Stephanie Clifford<\/strong>
Set in New York just before the 2008 recession, this debut novel (and instant bestseller) from a veteran\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0writer has earned her the title of \u201ca modern-day Edith Wharton.\u201d Part social satire, part cautionary tale,\u00a0Everybody Rise<\/em>\u00a0tells the story of Evelyn, a well-meaning but endearingly flawed protagonist who tries to make it in high society. With a tightly-wound plot and plenty of funny moments, I\u2019m halfway through and enjoying it so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purity<\/a>\u00a0by Jonathan Franzen<\/strong>
Hailed by critics as a \u201cmagnum opus,\u201d the latest novel from the author of\u00a0Freedom<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Corrections<\/em>\u00a0might be the most-hyped book of the season. The novel\u2019s protagonist is Pip \u201cPurity\u201d Tyler, a young woman grappling with a pointless job, crippling student debt and a toxic relationship with her mom\u2026 along with plenty of sex, travel and murder. With his ambitious narratives and unmatched literary prose, Franzen has been called the finest writer of today. Like\u00a0The Goldfinch<\/em>\u00a0in 2013, this is one of those tomes seemingly everyone will read. (Or pretend to read. Or purchase and keep telling themselves they\u2019re going to read.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Window Opens<\/a>\u00a0by Elisabeth Egan<\/strong>
This debut novel from the books editor at Glamour has made appearances on countless \u201cbest of\u201d lists and drawn comparisons to\u00a0Bridget Jones\u2019 Diary<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0I Don\u2019t Know How She Does It<\/em>. The book follows Alice, a mostly happily married mother of three, who is proud of her \u201cbalancing act,\u201d until life inevitably gets in the way. People magazine hailed it as \u201ca fresh, funny take on the age-old struggle to have it all.\u201d The stream of glowing praise (and nearly 5-star Amazon rating!) have made it next on my list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big Magic<\/a>\u00a0by Elizabeth Gilbert<\/strong>
The new nonfiction offering from the author of\u00a0Eat, Pray, Love<\/em>\u00a0is Gilbert\u2019s first foray into \u201cself help\u201d territory. Drawing from her own experience, she promises an honest examination of the creative process, including how to find the \u201cstrange jewels\u201d hidden within each of us. If it\u2019s anywhere close to as inspiring as\u00a0her TED talk on the subject<\/a>, it\u2019s sure to be wonderful. And after all, who couldn\u2019t use a little (big) magic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are you reading these days? Are there any books you\u2019re looking forward to checking out? I\u2019d love to hear!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every season, there are those books everyone starts buzzing about: Gone Girl! The Goldfinch! Fifty Shades of Grey. They explode all over your social media feeds and populate the front tables at your local bookstore. (And eventually, they turn into movies.) So, just in time for spring, I rounded up five of some big, and … <\/p>\n

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