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People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry People We Meet on Vacation is the perfect book for this moment. Not only did it offer the vicarious travel experience I was craving after a year at home, but mostly it was a beautiful reminder to be brave for love. Plus, it’s equal parts hilarious and sexy. A gajillion stars. Julia Whelan, author of
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The Sound Between Notes by Barbara Linn Probst Any book that brings together a search for one s biological parents with a medical mystery has me at hello. Add the inner lives of musicians to the trails of music connecting generations and you have the spellbinding novel,
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A Certain Hunger, went to the place we,
Bon Appétit, and I, writer lady, never go. A place where sex and food entwine so grossly and explicitly that it makes you laugh, scream, and need a drink as stiff as this innuendo. This book is crazy. You have to read it.
The premise is: An esteemed old-school restaurant critic loves to kill the men she sleeps with. And eat them. (We’re talking about a pair of braised butt cheeks ”roast rump” here and a skinned tongue there, not like the whole bod. She also cooks them straight-up gourmet: A lover’s liver is turned into pâté and spread on Tuscan toast.) The book made me.hungry? How? Maybe I have some soul-searching to do.
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Any carnivore will tell you: Sometimes you enjoy a cut of meat more for its flavor than its tenderness. A rich bavette steak, a crisply fried pig’s ear, a long-simmered mutton roast.
“A Certain Hunger,” Chelsea G. Summers’ debut novel, requires some chewing, and that is mostly as Martha Stewart would put it a good thing. Meet Dorothy Daniels, now 50-something and incarcerated at Bedford Hills, the supposedly upscale women’s prison in Connecticut where Stewart also did time, albeit for a different crime. Dorothy has a lot to say and at times her tangents about truffle hunting, prison cuisine and acrobatic love-making threaten to distract from the juicy marrow of her confessions.
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