Today's Featured Book:
Enormous Wings
by Laurie Frankel
Genre: Fiction
Published: May 5, 2026
Page Count: 303 pages
Summary:
At seventy-seven, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn’t choose the Vista View Retirement Community of Austin, Texas―that would be her three grown children―but when she grudgingly moves in, she not only makes new friends, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion, vomiting, and confusion start. She fears it’s cancer, dementia, a stroke. But a raft of tests later, the news is even more shocking: She’s pregnant.
You know how it ends.
Everyone in the whole world knows how it ends.
Of course that's true anyway for all of us, no matter what.
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When Alice annouced she was adopting twins, I had reminded her of this conversation. "Babies need their laundry washed and their meals cooked and their clothes shopped for and their egos stroked all the time, you know. You have to clean their bathroom sometimes several times a day."
"But only for eighteen years," said Alice. "Then they're grown up and off your to-do list."
I couldn't tell her how untrue that was. Some things you just can't know until they actually happen to you.
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Are you team dog-eared pages or strictly no creases? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee-Addicted Writer)
Sometimes I dog-ear. Sometimes I keep a book pristine.
Strictly pristine over here. I can't fathom dog-earring a book page. It just hurts. Lol.
ReplyDeleteHere's my BBH
Have a GREAT day!
Old Follower :)
Maybe a retirement community is not so bad after all!
ReplyDeleteI’m definitely strictly Team Bookmark, but I think a lot of readers probably fall somewhere in the middle like that 😊 Happy Reading—and hop over to my post when you get a chance!
ReplyDeleteWell, that's quite the description! Makes those places sound like they have some potential!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like an interesting book. I do like to read about older characters.
ReplyDeleteI'm team pristine. I think as I get older I get worse 😂
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Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
My post:
https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/book-blogger-hop-are-you-team-dog-eared-pages-or-strictly-no-creases/
I have so completely switched to Kindle books that I forgot about bookmarks and dogears! I have no compunction about “marking” an ebook, though I do turn off the “popular highlights” feature.
ReplyDeleteAgain, for some reason, I am Anonymous rather than maefood.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteCrazy!
DeleteI enjoyed one of Laurie Frankel's books (This Is How It Always Is), and I love books with older protagonists, so this one's on my radar.
ReplyDeleteNo dog-earring, but I do use removeable Post-It flags to mark favorite passages.
I switched to Kindle several years ago - no more room on the bookshelves of my house. But back in the day when I read physical books, I always used a bookmark. And I, too, enjoy books with older protagonists. Maybe because I can more easily relate to them.
ReplyDeleteWell, I wasn't expecting that summary. I enjoyed Laurie Frankel's book about having a trans-gender child. I bet I'll like this one, too.
ReplyDeleteI use bookmarks, no dog eared pages.
ReplyDeleteI love the colours and artwork on the cover of this book. I always use bookmarks, Deb. :)
ReplyDeleteSuddenly pregnant at that age would be a horrible shock.
ReplyDeleteBookmarks. I’ve gotten library books which were dog-eared and it makes me so mad!