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December 3, 2021

We had a really wonderful --- and busy --- Thanksgiving weekend. Dinner on Thursday was festively fun, and I wisely packed up lots of leftovers for everyone, so we were not eating them for days!

Greg's friend, Angela, was visiting from the UK, and she was a total delight. Kelley, our niece, spent the weekend, too. She is a great golfer, and she and Tom played on two days.

Then Kelley and I went poinsettia shopping at a nearby nursery where they grow 25,000 poinsettia plants. The colors were just stunning --- yellow, bronze, multi-color, light pink, deep pink. I am not a fan of the traditional red plants, but these I love. She also helped me decorate for the holiday, and we got a lot done!

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Joe Ancis

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

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Joe Ancis

December 3, 2021 - December 17, 2021

Here are reading recommendations with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars for the contest period of December 3 - December 17.

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December 3, 2021, 369 voters

End-of-the-Year Contest 2021

Congratulations to the winners of our 2021 End-of-the-Year Contest! One Grand Prize winner received all 44 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2021, while 11 others won a selection of four of these titles. You can see all the winners below, along with 2021's Bets On books.

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The Collective by Alison Gaylin

The USA Today bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author of NEVER LOOK BACK and IF I DIE TONIGHT plumbs the dark side of justice and the depths of diabolical revenge in this propulsive novel of psychological suspense that melds the driving narrative of THEN SHE WAS GONE with the breathtaking twists of THE CHAIN and the violent fury of Kill Bill.

Just how far will a grieving mother go to right a tragic wrong?

Camille Gardener is a grieving --- and angry --- mother who, five years after her daughter’s death, is still obsessed with the privileged young man she believes to be responsible.

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Going There by Katie Couric

December 2021

Years ago, I thought being a host of a morning show would be a great career for me. Then I realized that I would be heading to work around 3:45am to do that job, and since I am not a morning person, I decided that never was going to happen. That said, I have been intrigued by network television, both for what goes into making a broadcast behind the scenes and how it has changed since its early days.

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Lilly Pulitzer

Being happy never goes out of style.

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Lilly Pulitzer

December 2, 2021

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this holiday season. Read more about it, and enter our Holiday Cheer Contest by Friday, December 3rd at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of VERITY by Colleen Hoover, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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Laura Preble

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

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Laura Preble, THE QUEEN GEEK SOCIAL CLUB