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What I've Been Reading Lately

I missed my monthly "Show Us Your Books" Round up with  +Stephanie Mellor Doyle  and  +Jana Lynch  and I was super sad, but I still wanted to talk about the books I've read lately because there are so many great ones!  First up, one of my  @BookoftheMonthClub picks for January: Lilian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney As if I already didn't think the charm of NYC was magical, Lillian Boxfish made sure that I always would feel that way. It's NYE, 1984 and Lillian, spry and sharp even in her mid-eighties, is determinedly walking the streets of New York City in order to have her annual NYE dinner at her favorite restaurant. The books is simple in its intent: to show you the life and times of a woman who blazed the trail for females in a male-dominated industry in the late 1920s and early 1930s. But where it is simple in plot, the story also is filled with a magical tapestry of times gone by...of Lillian's life in its various stages and he