Saturday, April 29, 2017

Book Spotlight Giveaway! Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng


I have sooooo many books! The Book Spotlight Giveaway feature that I post every Saturday is a way for me to clear my shelves and to share some of the many books I have. This feature is a way for my to cull my collection and to give someone else the opportunity to enjoy these treasures.

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This one was another book club read for me. Did you ever have a book that you would never pick up on your own and that you know you are not going to like but you are reading because someone in book club picked it? Well, that was this book for me. And I was pleasantly surprised at how much I came to love the plot, the characters, and everything else about it. That is what can sometimes be great about book club picks, they take me out of my comfort zone and introduce me to a treasure I would have missed. We had a great discussion too, by the way. And I noticed that this author has another book coming out in the fall. I'll be keeping my eye out for that one now that I have discovered Celeste Ng.

Good luck and be sure to stop back next week!

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Everything I Never Told You

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Paperback, 292 pages
Published May 12th 2015 by Penguin Books

Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet . . . So begins this debut novel about a mixed-race family living in 1970s Ohio and the tragedy that will either be their undoing or their salvation. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother’s bright blue eyes and her father’s jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue—in Marilyn’s case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James’s case that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the center of every party.

When Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront the long-kept secrets that have been slowly pulling them apart. 


About the author


Celeste Ng is the author of the novel Everything I Never Told You, which was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2014, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications. Everything I Never Told You was also the winner of the Massachusetts Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the ALA’s Alex Award, and the Medici Book Club Prize, and was a finalist for numerous awards, including the Ohioana Award, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.

Celeste grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, in a family of scientists. Celeste attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan (now the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan), where she won the Hopwood Award. Her fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere, and she is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize.

Currently, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her second novel, Little Fires Everywhere, will be published by Penguin Press in fall 2017.

Connect with Celeste


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22 comments:

  1. My niece just gave me a YA book The Iron Trail. I thought it would be a Harry Potter style story. Just loved it. Will be looking for the another books in the series.

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    1. Thanks Mary - I am loving YA books more and more. I'll have to check out this series.

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  2. I usually want to read a book because I know I'll enjoy it, and then I enjoy reading the book.

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    1. Me to but sometimes book club picks are ones I don't think I would enjoy. And then I am surprised!

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  3. A novel which I thoroughly enjoyed was The Railwayman's Wife.

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    1. I haven't heard of this one but I'll have to go check it out.

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  4. I've heard really great things about this one! A book that I didn't have any interest in read but ended up LOVING when I finally did was Cinder by Marissa Meyer.

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    1. Interesting. I think I have that whole series. I obviously thought I would like them, I want to read them, I just haven't. I should move Cinder up higher on my TBR list.

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  5. I can say that I have ever started reading a book thinking I wasn't going to like it. If that was the case, I wouldnt start reading the book.

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    1. Ah yes, but book club picks make me read something I don't think I'll like. And if I end up not liking it for real, it makes for a good discussion.

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  6. It happened me with The Avery Shaw Experiment by Kelly Oram, it was a recommendation from my sister and she insisted so much that I read it that I started to hate the book, but after 2 chapters it caught me, I ended loving it!

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    1. I love when that happens. Sometimes we have to bite the bullet and listen to people who highly recommend books to us, don't we? I have not heard of this book but I'll have to check it out.

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  7. I felt the same way about The Pillars of the Earth. I ended up loving it.

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    1. I have a friend who absolutely loves this book too. I just can't make myself read it. I suppose I should give it a try.

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  8. I usually read books that I think I'm going to like. I've liked most of them but there's a few I couldn't get into so I don't finish them.

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    1. I hear ya! So many books, so little time. Don't waste time on a book that doesn't grab you.

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  9. Sometimes I'm surprised how I go from thinking of putting a book down because the beginning seems too slow and/or is too long to commit to. I did this with "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace. It ended up being one of my favorite books.

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    1. I love it when someone says 'it starts slow but stick with it' and then it pulls you in. I'll have to check this one out.

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  10. A Bullet For Carlo by Giacomo Giammatteo. A cop /mafia book. read it first then it was getting really , really good!!!

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  11. I will try to continue reading a book for a few days and if I can't get interested I usually stop reading it. Can't remember a title!
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  12. I have found that I love to read just about anything. I never thought I would like vampire books until my daughter made me read one.

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