I picked this up based on Lavery’s name and it was... fine. The main character, a 60 year old woman who maybe overthinks things, has been broken up with by her best friend. Now she needs a new one, but how does someone go about that, at her age and with her level of specificity about how she feels about life and other things? It’s a lot of her thinking about people (and food) and how she feels about them and herself. It’s well written but not much happens in it. I felt like I was inside the head of someone who I didn’t quite agree with or enjoy her thoughts. And there’s a “turning point” in the book that didn’t ring true to me.
{ search }
{ see all the books }
by author ... by title
by rating:
[ + ]
[ 0 ]
[ - ]
by category:
| all categories
| best in show
| biography
| collection
| fiction
| graphic novel
| librariana
| non-fiction
| poetry
| reference
| unfinished
| ya
{ 2026 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2025 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2024 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2023 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2022 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2021 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2020 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2019 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2018 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2017 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2016 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2015 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2014 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2013 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2012 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2011 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2010 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2009 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2008 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2007 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2006 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2005 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2004 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2003 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ 2002 }
| jan | feb | mar | apr |
| may | jun | jul | aug |
| sep | oct | nov | dec |
{ change the font }
{ pre-oddbook }
Meeting New People
![[get the rss feed here]](/pix/rss.jpg)