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The Dinner Party
The Dinner Party: A Novel | Brenda Janowitz
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This Passover Seder is not just any Passover Seder. Yes, there will be a quick service and a festive meal afterwards, but this night is different from all other nights. This will be the night the Golds of Greenwich meet the Rothschilds of New York City.The Rothschilds are the stuff of legends, and when Sylvia finds out that her youngest of three is going to bring her new boyfriend to the Seder, she's giddy. When she finds out that his parents are coming, too, she darn near faints. Making a good impression is all she thinks about. Well, almost. She still has to consider her other daughter, Sarah, who'll be coming with her less than appropriate beau and his overly dramatic Italian mother. But the drama won't stop there. Because despite the food and the wine, despite the new linen and the fresh flowers, the holidays are about family. Long forgotten memories come to the surface. Old grievances play out. And Sylvia Gold has to learn how to let her family go.
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MindyK59
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This was a fun book to read. A Passover Seder in which the hostess is trying to impress her daughter‘s boyfriend‘s parents while not being impressed by her other daughter‘s choice of boyfriend and his mother. Add in a brother with news of his own and it makes for a very interesting dinner for sure. Everything wraps up nicely in the end so it was a good story.

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TK421
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This is tough! So many possibilities!
1. J RR Tolkien
2. Jules Verne
3. Sherrilyn Kenyon (she is SO nice!)
4. Neil Gaiman
5. Alan Moore
6. Zelda Fitzgerald
7. Brian K Vaughan
8. Terry Pratchett
Can this just be table 1? I have so many more to invite!😁
@amber_ldsmom

amber_ldsmom How could I forget Terry Pratchett at mine??? Good choice! 6y
Rachbb3 Zelda ❤ 6y
Andrew65 We also need Patrick Rothfuss, we need answers. Perhaps you could sneak a ninth seat in at the end of the table. 😂 @MinDea @TricksyTails 6y
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Mdargusch Such a hard choice! 6y
MinDea 😆😆😆 @Andrew65 Yes someone invite him to dinner, get him drunk and find out what happens next! Or get that man a muse! 6y
TK421 Yes! @Andrew65 @MinDea If the drinks don't work, we'll show Rothfuss a video of us beating George R R Martin. "This will happen to you unless you finish your book soon!" 6y
MinDea 🤣🤣🤣 6y
Andrew65 @TK421 perhaps we should threaten to write our own final book and publish it before he does if he doesn‘t do so soon! @MinDea 6y
MinDea @Andrew65 😆😆 that would be hilarious! How do we kill off Ambrose. This is very important! 6y
Andrew65 @MinDea Professor Plum in the library with the lead pipe! 😂 (edited) 6y
MinDea 🤣🤣🤣 @Andrew65 6y
Andrew65 @MinDea Or perhaps that should have been Master Elxa Dal in the Scriptorium with the Sympathy Lamp! 6y
MinDea Bahahah @Andrew65!!! Yes. That is it! 6y
TK421 @Andrew65 Yes! I love it!😃 6y
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RebelReader
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1. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
2. Roxanne Gay
3. Jane Austen
4. Maya Angelou
5. Ernest Hemingway
6. John Boyne
7. Beatriz Williams
8. Elizabeth Strout

SiriGuruDevSingh ❤️Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ❤️Agatha Christie ❤️Rex Stout ❤️Stephen King ❤️ Neil Gaiman ❤️Laini Taylor ❤️William Shakespeare ❤️Cassandra Clare. WAIT! I can‘t decide! 6y
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Broke_Girl_Reads
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#5fordinner looks so fun!
📚 Mark Oshiro: surprise Mark! This party is in honor of the upcoming release of your first novel!
📚 Kate Leth: fantastic author and artist, my all time biggest celeb crush
📚 Marguerite Bennett: turns every story she touches into queer feminist gold
📚 NK Jemisin: could lecture me about drywall for 2 hours and I would be fascinated
📚 Janet Mock: have y'all tried her podcast yet? IT'S SO GOOOOOOD

@Mindelan your turn!

ReadingEnvy Oh I've never heard of Marguerite Bennett. where should I start? 7y
Broke_Girl_Reads @ReadingEnvy I only discovered her recently. She's a comics writer, and I found her through D.C. Comics Bombshells, which I highly recommend. She also wrote the opening essay in The Secret Loves of Geek Girls and I'm still thinking about it months later 7y
WarpedSweetness @Broke_Girl_Reads I added both of those to my TBR list. Thanks! 7y
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Shemac77
The Dinner Party: A Novel | Brenda Janowitz

I have no idea how to make a collage so I'll list my dinner party for you @shawnmooney !
Hunter S Thompson
Tom Robbins
Jack Kerouac
Charles Bukowski
Christopher Moore

shawnmooney That sounds like a party! 😍 7y
Oblomov26 That would be a fun and dangerous party 7y
Cinfhen There is a free app called picCollage which is simple & fun to navigate and you can make awesome collages!!!! 7y
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Suet624 Wow. Great choices! 7y
Shemac77 Right?! I think it would be one wild ride! @shawnmooney @Oblomov26 7y
Shemac77 Thank you! @Cinfhen I'll check it out 7y
britt_brooke Love your choices! 7y
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shawnmooney
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Thanks for the tag, @Cinfhen ! My #5ForDinner party would be with (clockwise from top left) Ali Smith, Madeleine Thien (who'd be too shy to say much but then'd go home and write a mellifluously incisive essay about the evening), NoViolet Bulawayo, James Baldwin, and Dorothy Parker because what's a dinner party without Dorothy Parker? I tag @Lindy @saresmoore @Reggie @Shemac77

vivastory Great choices. I nearly included Baldwin & Parker 7y
Lindy I want to be invited to your party. 7y
shawnmooney @Lindy It's a tiny table but I just checked and Ali Smith says she doesn't mind if you sit on her lap. 😛 7y
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saresmoore My goodness, yes! 7y
Lindy @shawnmooney Ali might not mind, but perhaps her partner Sarah would. Sarah joined me and my friends for scones and tea at a Vancouver Writers Fest event that Ali was reading at a few years ago. 7y
shawnmooney @Lindy Sarah never needs to find out. My lips are sealed. 😂 7y
LeahBergen I'm coming, too! 7y
Cinfhen I was thinking Madeline might break out her violin for some dinner music😉great group💕 7y
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MaleficentBookDragon
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@Mdargusch asked who are five authors I'd like to have dinner with. These are my pics. I think this would be a trippy dinner party. #5fordinner
Dean Koontz, Jennifer MacMahon, Blake Crouch, Caroline Kepnes, and James Rollins.
Who would you like to have dinner conversation with @Redjewel_7734 @Lizpixie @ReadingOver50
@EvieBee

Mdargusch Good company! It would be great to hear what gives them all their ideas. 7y
Avanders Trippy and fun! 🌪🌈 7y
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DarcysMom
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Thanks for tagging me @AllenStClair
My #5ForDinner
Laura Ingalls Wilder, CS Lewis, L Frank Baum, Amanda M. Lee, and Lucy Maud Montgomery

I tag @McGonagall and everyone else who wants to participate.

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erzascarletbookgasm
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Thanks for tagging, @KarenUK . Here's my #5fordinner. Not sure if they'll make great dinner guests as a lot, but I'll love to have them over for dinner, seems an interesting party and I have some questions for them. Mr. Gaiman is quite a favourite guest among Littens, hope he'll find time to attend mine. Oh, and I'll get him to read us the dinner menu.

Feel free to tag yourself and name your dinner guests, will love to know. 🙂

HeatherBookNerd Some of my favorite authors at your dinner party. I might have to come along! 7y
LauraBrook Another awesome party! 7y
erzascarletbookgasm @HeatherBookNerd sure, just bring more wine! 😉 7y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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#5fordinner
I was tagged by @Centique thank you! 😘

I would invite Greg Iles, Beatriz Williams, Alyson Richman, Khaled Hosseini and Jodi Picoult 📚 if I had room to squeeze in one more at the table it would be Fiona Davis!

I tag @Reecaspieces @Smangela @Lmstraubie (not sure if y'all have done this yet!)

Centique That looks awesome! I have to go check out the first three cos I don't know them. This is a good way to find new authors! 😊 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks It really is!! Thank you!! I'm going to check yours out too! I don't know them 🙊 7y
Hollie Great choices! 7y
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JenReadsAlot Beatriz Williams - yes! I'll invite her as well 😊 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Hollie thank you!! 💕 7y
EllieDottie I would love to come to this party! Khaled Hosseini wrote one of my all time favorite books 7y
Lmstraubie Thanks for the tag! ☺️ 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @EllieDottie mine too!! That book ripped my ❤️out!!!! 😭😭😭 7y
Smangela I've got to put some thought into this one!! Great picks 😍 7y
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Centique
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#5fordinner

Thank you to @Natasha.C.Barnes for tagging me. My first tag! Such a hard choice but I've got some literary and fantasy favourites who I hope will find plenty to talk about together! (Clockwise from top left) NK Jemisin, Ben Aaronovitch, Audrey Niffenger, Hilary Mantel and Toni Morrison.

I'm tagging anyone who would like to dream about this! But let's add (if you're keen) @ClairesReads @Redheadrambles @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ⬇️

LeahBergen Oh, Hilary Mantel! 👍🏻 7y
Centique Plus @LeeRHarry @Marchpane @WeeWeegieBookworm @ChristinaLuvsBooks @Librarybelle tagging if you'd like to do this I'd love to see your choices! 7y
Natasha.C.Barnes Lovely choices! 7y
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Lcsmcat Hilary Mantel is not allowed to go to dinner parties until she finishes her trilogy. 😉 Once it's done, I'd love to have her over. 7y
Centique @LeahBergen love her! 7y
Centique @Lcsmcat agreed! How about she's invited but we stand over her computer and tell her she can't have cake till she's finished?! (Also I may need to do this to Ben to get another Peter Grant novel!) 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you for the tag!!! 😘 7y
Lcsmcat @Centique That might work. 😀 7y
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Natasha.C.Barnes
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🍽 Toni Morrison-giving 1 reason feels insulting-she's too amazing
🍽 Elizabeth Bowen-When you spend a year writing about someone, you have lots to ask!
🍽 John Darnielle-we can talk books AND music
🍽 David Mitchell-not sure why yet, but I love his books!
🍽 Patti Smith-kinda cheating bc I just want to meet her, not really to talk about books...
🍽 which makes Derek Palacio my substitute-only read 1 by him but I really want to talk about it!

Natasha.C.Barnes Lol it sounds like I don't know why I love Mitchell's books. I just mean I'm not sure what I would want to talk to him about exactly, but I've heard he's charming, so maybe he'd make a nice guest. 7y
Crystalblu Always Patti! The husband just got me her new book 💜 7y
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diovival Cool! 7y
Natasha.C.Barnes @Crystalblu Yeah...Ill have to keep Patti. So Derek can come in Bowen's stead, her being dead and all. 😄 7y
Centique @Natasha.C.Barnes these are amazing choices! Thanks for tagging me - I've never been tagged before! 7y
mrozzz Patti Smith! Nice thinking 🤘🏻 7y
Natasha.C.Barnes @mrozzz 😉🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 7y
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AprilMae
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#5fordinner
📚 Stephen King
📚 Jodi Picoult
📚 Laura Ingalls Wilder
📚 Jenny Lawson
📚 Neil Gaiman

Why them? They have all inspired me in one way or another. They all have amazing works and great stories to tell

I tag @haileyhugsbooks

Erinreadsthebooks Jenny Lawson 😍😍😍 7y
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Apinlibraryland
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August TBR!

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chavalah
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A fun, light-hearted romp about family drama across the Seder table. The matriarch wants to impress her daughter's new (douchey) beau and his family--some Rothschilds! She's less thrilled with her other daughter's choice of a lower class dude and his loud mother. Then her golden son causes waves. The action is pretty soapy and funny; a real pallette cleanser of a book. And of course things wrap up nicely with lessons learned at the end. #JewLit

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LauraJ
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For my #literarydinnerparty, I would invite Behemoth from Master and the Margarita, Tom Kitten from the tale of Tom Kitten, Church (pre-death) from Pet Semarang, The Cheshire Cat & The Cat in the Hat. Purr. #24in48

rubyslippersreads I want to be invited to this kitty dinner party! I'll bring tuna and 7y
LauraJ @rubyslippersreads Absolutely! The more the merrier 😸 7y
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catebutler
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carmens.library
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#24in48 Hr 42 Challenge: Literary Dinner Party

Here are 5 guests I'd want at my dinner party, I went all fictional on this:

Rhysand & Jamie are for eye candy and shameless flirting.

Lucy Pevensie because she's adorable and sweet and I want to hear all about Narnia.

Gandalf will impart wisdom and can also provide an after dinner fireworks show.

Luna Lovegood can supply us with endless topics of discussion.
#24in48readathon #readathon
@24in48

TaylorMay Omg I absolutely love your dinner party! Can I come too??? Pretty please 😉 I'll bring wine 7y
carmens.library @TaylorMay Well if you're bringing wine you can definitely come. I'll even share Rhysand, but Jamie's mine😂 7y
Foreversweetserendipity Perfect dinner party!!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼😍 7y
TaylorMay Deal!! As long as I can still flirt with Jamie. Cause you know Rhys will with you...and Jamie lol 7y
carmens.library @TaylorMay 😂😂😂It's a deal! 7y
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12parsecs
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I feel like Hudson would wish he has was at my dinner party (seriously this dude goes after everything, including apple cider ?)

Here are my 5 guests:

Günter Grass
JK Rowling
JRR Tolkien
Haruki Murakami
Jane Austen

#24in48

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BethM
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Hour 42 check in your dinner party. I went straight fictional. 1. Dumbledore 2. Atticus from the Iron Druid series 3. Oberon from the Iron Druid series 4. Acheron from the Dark Hunter series. 5. Suzze and Jesse (ok I cheated) from The Mediator series. #24in48

BethM And I should mention that if Oberon comes I will clearly be able to communicate with him :) 7y
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swishandflick
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My #24in48 #literarydinnerparty 🍽

I feel like the conversation would be hella interesting 🙌🏽

josie281 I'm crashing your party! 7y
readordierachel Oh wow! To be a fly on the wall at that dinner party. 7y
goddessj2002 We share 3 out of the 5 you have listed: King, Rowling, and Gabaldon! Joint dinner party? 😂 7y
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BookBabe
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#BookNDinner! Easter edition. Had to leave my book in my bag so @MrBook 's family wouldn't think I was rude.😉What a feast! Began w/ delicious baked Brie w/ fresh raspberries, chips&onion dip, cheese&crackers,olives&pickles,radishes; main course: turkey&gravy, honey-glazed ham, my contribution:delicious cheesy ranch potatoes which everyone loved, sweet taters, mashed taters, stuffing, corn&carrots; dessert: fruit salad, 3 kinds of pie,& cookies!😋

Reviewsbylola I was so bored at my inlaw's the other night that I finally asked my husband if it would be rude to read my book. To be fair, they all sit and watch movies, so I'm not the only anti social one. 7y
Aleida That beautiful pie! What is it? I'll need all the sexy details. 7y
LeslieO My in laws are used to me now but I think they used to think I was crazy, taking a book everywhere! But once the TV goes on @Reviewsbylola the book comes out! 7y
Reviewsbylola Exactly! They watch movies the whole time we are there, so I don't feel bad. If they actually socialized then I wouldn't do it! @LeslieO 7y
MyNamesParadise Yummy!!!! I want some!!! 7y
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BookBabe
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Last night's #BookNDinner! #LitsyParty edition! Following the shrimp cocktail appetizer on this snowy evening: corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes marinated for 10 hours in Guinness Blonde lager in the crockpot; smokehouse green beans; sautéed mushrooms & garlic cloves in olive oil & balsamic vinegar; and Cabernet Sauvignon. Yum! ?This has been a presentation of: #MrBookBookBabeKitchen. Happy reads & happy eats!

Bookzombie I had to buy cabbage this week because of you and @MrBook 😁 7y
Flaneurette Love the hefty pour of cab 🍷 7y
imagine.wonder.dream A sense of friendship's embrace through the palate. A warm sense of place filled with their art, heirlooms, and leather-bound gems, A sense of love, celebrated, with laughter, and good conversation. nourish the soul 7y
BookBabe @imagine.wonder.dream ❤️☺️ 7y
BookBabe @Bookzombie ha! 😉 • @Flaneurette 😊🍷 7y
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BookBabe
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#BookNDinner! Valentine's Day edition! Anniversary edition! Crispy friend calamari appetizer, tender steak fillet medallions, sautéed spinach, loaded baked potato, and Jack & Coke! Mmmmm. Happy reads & happy eats! ?

TrishTheBibliophile Can I come over? Yum! Enjoy. Happy Anniversary AND Valentine's Day! 7y
LittlePixels Very cool seeing your dinner from both sides of the table. 😄 I'm jealous! We have nobody to watch the kiddos, and can't take them with because the youngest is sick. So it's leftovers and a rain check for me. 😜 7y
Reviewsbylola That looks amazing. 😍 Enjoy your night lovebirds! 7y
katedensen Adorable. 7y
MrBook 😍😍😍 7y
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MrBook
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#BookNDinner! Valentine's Edition! Anniversary Edition! Accompaniment this lovely evening: calamari & marinara for the appetizer; shrimp & scallop scampi; bread; Guinness. MMMmmm 😋!!! Happy reads & happy eats! 😎👌🏻 (They don't have tater tots here! 🙄)

Reviewsbylola Yummy! Enjoy! 7y
night_shift That looks great!! 7y
Lynnsoprano Looks fantastic. 7y
LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 7y
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GeorginaCrossAuthor
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See where it all takes you.

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Bethanychaseauthor
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I loved this fun, witty, charming read--great pick for anyone who loves stories about family dynamics!

UltraVioletRosie Books and beer go oh so perfectly together. 8y
MaryAnn1 I didn't care for the book but your taste in beer absolutely rocks!! Blue Moon is fantastic!!🍺 8y
MaryAnn1 @Bethanychaseauthor 🍻cheers!!🤓 8y
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