Book Spotlight Giveaway! Other People's Houses by Abbi Waxman

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.

I read Other People's Houses earlier this year when it came out and really enjoyed it. You can find my review post here. I'm giving it up to let someone else have a chance to read it.

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Other People's Houses

Other People's Houses by Abbi Waxman
ARC, 352 pages
Published April 3rd 2018 by Berkley Books

The author of The Garden of Small Beginnings returns with a hilarious and poignant new novel about four families, their neighborhood carpool, and the affair that changes everything.

At any given moment in other people's houses, you can find...repressed hopes and dreams...moments of unexpected joy...someone making love on the floor to a man who is most definitely not her husband...

*record scratch*

As the longtime local carpool mom, Frances Bloom is sometimes an unwilling witness to her neighbors' private lives. She knows her cousin is hiding her desire for another baby from her spouse, Bill Horton's wife is mysteriously missing, and now this...

After the shock of seeing Anne Porter in all her extramarital glory, Frances vows to stay in her own lane. But that's a notion easier said than done when Anne's husband throws her out a couple of days later. The repercussions of the affair reverberate through the four carpool families--and Frances finds herself navigating a moral minefield that could make or break a marriage.

About the author

Abbi Waxman is a chocolate-loving, dog-loving woman, who lives in Los Angeles and lies down as much as possible. She worked in advertising for many years, which is how she learned to write fiction. She has three daughters, three dogs, three cats, and one very patient husband. ~ Amazon

Connect with Abbi

Website | Goodreads | Amazon

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? April 16, 2018

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!

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Oh my gosh! We had a blizzard this past weekend. The wind was unbelievable! And the snow just wouldn't stop. Everything in pretty much the whole state (South Dakota) was closed down. We even had a snow plow/sand truck stuck in front of our house. How does that happen?

Both interstates in the state were closed for most of Friday and all day Saturday. And we're supposed to get more snow in the middle of the week through the weekend. I'm not sure if our trip to the Black Hills is going to happen now. So bummed! The snow needs to stop.

Here are a couple of pictures I took on Saturday to capture the craziness of the weekend. 

This is our front window with a plant in front of it. The snow was stuck to the window when we got up Saturday morning. I thought this made a very interesting picture. 

This is out the back door on Sunday morning. That's the door to the garage. We'll be doing some digging out. 

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

Broken Wide (Mindjack: Zeph #3)
by Susan Kaye Quinn
I love  this series and love that I'm reading another Mindjack story.

The Forgotten Ones
by Steena Holmes

(audio-book)
Amazing! 

What I recently finished

Bridal Girl (Blogger Girl #3)
by Meredith Schorr
I love this series. Bridal Girl comes out next week. I'll be posting my thoughts tomorrow.

Other People's Houses
by Abbi Waxman
You can read my thoughts here.

What I am going to read next

Every Single Secret
by Emily Carpenter
So excited to start this one!

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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Other People's Houses by Abbi Waxman ~ My Thoughts

Other People's Houses

Other People's Houses by Abbi Waxman
Paperback, 352 pages
Published April 3rd 2018 by Berkley Books

"Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin 

And now the author of The Garden of Small Beginnings returns with a hilarious and poignant new novel about four families, their neighborhood carpool, and the affair that changes everything.

At any given moment in other people's houses, you can find...repressed hopes and dreams...moments of unexpected joy...someone making love on the floor to a man who is most definitely not her husband...

*record scratch*

As the longtime local carpool mom, Frances Bloom is sometimes an unwilling witness to her neighbors' private lives. She knows her cousin is hiding her desire for another baby from her spouse, Bill Horton's wife is mysteriously missing, and now this...

After the shock of seeing Anne Porter in all her extramarital glory, Frances vows to stay in her own lane. But that's a notion easier said than done when Anne's husband throws her out a couple of days later. The repercussions of the affair reverberate through the four carpool families--and Frances finds herself navigating a moral minefield that could make or break a marriage.

    

My thoughts about Other People's Houses ~~

(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first lines.)

First line—"It's amazing how many children you could fit in a minivan, if you tessellated carefully and maintained only the most basic level of safety."

Other People's Houses gives us a look at a neighborhood where people sort of know each other and sort of know what is going on in those other people's lives. But as we get a glimpse of the insides of those other people's houses, we see that things are not what they seem to be or what we thought they were.

The story is mainly about the people who live in four houses, the adults as well as all of the children. At first, it seemed like a lot of characters to keep straight, but I quickly got to know them and I soon felt like I was just another neighbor on that street, finding out their secrets and lies.

This was a fascinating, sometimes hilarious, look at friends and acquaintances and what is perceived to be going on within the four walls of their houses. And how far can friends go before that friendship breaks? I thoroughly enjoyed Other People's Houses and would recommend it to those who like taking a look at the complexity of relationships or just want a fun book to get lost in.

I received an ARC of this book and am voluntarily reviewing it.

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About the Author

Abbi Waxman was born in England in 1970, the oldest child of two copywriters who never should have been together in the first place. Once her father ran off to buy cigarettes and never came back, her mother began a highly successful career writing crime fiction. She encouraged Abbi and her sister Emily to read anything and everything they could pull down from the shelves, and they did. Naturally lazy and disinclined to dress up, Abbi went into advertising, working as a copywriter and then a creative director at various advertising agencies in London and New York. Clients ranged from big and traditional, (AT&T, Chase Manhattan Bank, IBM, American Express, Unilever, Mercedes-Benz) to big and morally corrupt (R. J. Reynolds) to big and larcenous (Enron). Eventually she quit advertising, had three kids and started writing books, TV shows and screenplays, largely in order to get a moment’s peace.

Abbi lives in Los Angeles with her husband, three kids, three dogs, three cats, a gecko, two mice and six chickens. Every one of these additions made sense at the time, it’s only in retrospect that it seems foolhardy.

Feel free to drop her a line, she readily welcomes any excuse to stop working and do something else.

Connect with Abbi

Website | Twitter | Goodreads | Amazon

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? April 9, 2018

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!

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It snowed here all day Sunday! Ugh!! As my 3 year old grandson exclaimed when we looked out the window and saw all the snow, "Now Spring will never come! It's too cold!" He was so sad. Out of the mouth of babes, right? It is kind of pretty but not so much in April when we are 3 weeks into Spring-time already.

Hubby and I are planning a trip to the Black Hills in a few weeks. First we'll stop and visit my mother-in-law in Nebraska for a few days and then head to the Hills. We love it out there and I can't wait! I've already started to think about the books I'm going to take! 📕📖📗📚

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

Other People's Houses
by Abbi Waxman

The Forgotten Ones
by Steena Holmes

(audio-book)

What I recently finished

Aphrodite's Tears
by Hannah Fielding 
My thoughts will be posted later this week.

Abby's Journey
by Steena Holmes

(audio-book)

What I am going to read next

Bridal Girl (Blogger Girl #3)
by Meredith Schorr 
I love this series!

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? April 2, 2018

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!

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Well, we made it to April, Easter is past, the first day of Spring has come and gone and...they are predicting snow for us again this week. Ugh!

I do seem to be catching up on my reading and Goodreads is saying I am only 1 book behind schedule on my reading challenge. I should just quit looking at that, shouldn't I? 😌

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

Aphrodite's Tears
by Hannah Fielding 

Abby's Journey
by Steena Holmes

(audio-book)

What I recently finished

Sparkle On: Women Aging in Gratitude
by Kim Kane


Manipulated Lives
by H.A. Leuschel 
My thoughts will be posted on Wednesday.

New York to Dallas (In Death #33)
by J.D. Robb

(audio-book)

Before I Let You Go
by Kelly Rimmer
My thoughts will be posted later today.

What I am going to read next

Other People's Houses
by Abbi Waxman

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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