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We are so excited to read this one for February!! We hope you all can join us!! 💗💗💗

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Chose this book for my #liveandlearn prompt for #booked2020 I have one more to go for this round! This was about the McCarthy Era and the impact on the Broadway community and it blew my mind!

This is our lineup for the first part of 2020!! We hope you all can join us! We have great discussions! All are welcome!!

February- The Chelsea Girls
March- The Golden Hour
April- Whisper Network
May- The Sun Down Motel
June- The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
July- A Thousand Splendid Suns

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Is anyone else tackling the #Bookly reads than this week? I just read about it today, I‘m going to aim for the 2020 pages!

We are so excited to read this one for February!! We hope you all can join us!! 💗💗💗

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Next up!! My tenth book of 2020 will be this one, it‘s my #booked2020 #liveandlearn book since I don‘t know much about the time period.

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This is our lineup for the first part of 2020!! We hope you all can join us! We have great discussions! All are welcome!!

February- The Chelsea Girls
March- The Golden Hour
April- Whisper Network
May- The Sun Down Motel
June- The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
July- A Thousand Splendid Suns

#BotmBuddyRead

This is our lineup for the first part of 2020!! We hope you all can join us! We have great discussions! All are welcome!!

February- The Chelsea Girls
March- The Golden Hour
April- Whisper Network
May- The Sun Down Motel
June- The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
July- A Thousand Splendid Suns

#BotmBuddyRead

A 2020 goal is to catch up on unread books by favorite authors. This was at the top of my list! Excellent historical fiction writing & beautiful character development. A story of friendship, loss, & forgiveness. Of how politics, McCarthyism, affected even the artistic community including those at the Chelsea hotel in NY. I drew parallels to today's current political situation more than once during this book. I love the stories Fiona Davis writes!

This book is well written, highly entertaining.
It will make you smile, cry, get mad, aggravated.
I loved some of the characters.. especially Hazel Ripley. She was a strong person,high moral character. She just did not have enough confidence in herself,until the end.
Wow, this story blew me away

I liked the historical context, the little touches here and there that set the scenes, the world within Hazel and Maxine lived. Especially New York in the 1950s. Two very compelling and interesting characters. The balance between showing, the Chelsea hotel is a character by itself, and the telling, the journal entries, is well done. What bothered me was the whole ghosts thing. That threw me out of the narrative big time. #netgalley

Hockey night. 🐧 vs Habs. I'm almost at 50% in this one. It's pretty good.
#readingandwatchinghockey

Back to back games. 🐧 in Detroit. I miss my captain. 🍁 in St-Louis.
Been knitting most of the day.
#readingandwatchinghockey no knitting this evening

Friday night 🏒. Phil the thrill is in town. Will try to take a good bite of this new book.
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New book. This is the next title on my ARC list.

#newbook

I had to stop to see it in person, @fionajdavis 😍 Wish I could have gone inside. 😍

If you know me at all, you know how I love HF! And Fiona Davis is an author I read and I can‘t wait to read this one 🤪😍🤓

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Hollie!!! Thank you sooo much!! I was smiling ear to ear opening these gifts!! These are beautiful 📚❤️ You know what I love book sister!!! Thanks so much!! Love you 😘💗

I started this this morning, and I‘m almost finished; this is right up there with Davis‘ work on “The Dollhouse,” and I am loving these characters and this plot. 😭💖 #thechelseagirls #fionadavis #femalefriendships #coldwarfiction

I absolutely loved this book! First off I love all things theatre and old NYC! This novel was a beautiful mixture of both with a wonderful story of fierce friendship and how governmental paranoias can ruin lives and did during the post WWII era for the theatre world. A fabulous mixture of twist along with triumphs and loss made this a 5 star 🌟 🌟🌟🌟🌟 book for me! Definitely a must read!

#SassyBookworm😏 #TheChelseaGirls🎭 #HistoricalFiction

I love all of these books , they give you an insight into old New York. This one is a bit different in that it stays in the time era when Broadway was being scourged of said Communist sympathizers. What a scary time for America to use hearsay to protect from Russian spying. A scary time in history but a good story to tell the tale. Love these books/author.

8-26-19: My 69th finished book of 2019! #thechelseagirls #fionadavis 👍🏼📖#️⃣6️⃣9️⃣

I really enjoyed this historical fiction. Davis has a talent for creating a world that feels real.

8-23-19: Staying out of the rain in Barnes & Noble 📖💖🥨☕️

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If I ever took the time to make a list of authors who do not disappoint, Fiona Davis would be on that list. Her latest novel, set during the Red Scare of the 1950s. As always, she creates a world you feel you could walk right in to. In this book, she also crafts a complex female friendship that is one of the best I‘ve read. #fionadavis #thechelseagirls #historicalfiction #read #bookrecommendations #booknerds

3.5 STARS - I love being pulled into an era I knew little about. It‘s one of the reasons why I love Historical Fiction and Fiona Davis is an author I trust for a well-researched story & interesting setting.

The Chelsea Girls follows two friends through a World War and into the turbulent McCarthy era where fear was rampant as communist allegations & blacklisting resulted in horrific results for many.

My review: http://bit.ly/2Zlswmg

#LetsTravelAugust #hotel

The Chelsea Hotel in the theater district of NYC is setting for this novel.

Fiona Davis does it again! Read this on my treadmill walk (I swung by the gym between clients) and it was great! 2 USO actresses try to make it on Broadway in the 1950s but cross paths with the McCarthy Communist witchhunt. 4 stars.
#bfc #bfcr3 #bookfitnesschallenge #teamnamastepositive

Oh, how I love a NYC setting. It‘s been 11 years since I‘ve been there, but next July, I get to bring Anthony and Owen the magic that is NYC. ♥️

What a fun, interesting place The Chelsea Hotel must have been.

The description of the hotel's decorations, the secret places and passages in it, and the furnishings was fascinating.

The impeccable research Ms. Davis had to do definitely shows.

I do have to say THE CHELSEA GIRLS was a bit tedious to read, but I loved the history of the hotel and its inhabitants. 4/5

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#bookmail came today! Her covers are always gorgeous. I‘m happy I pre-ordered it, even if it might be a couple of days before I can start reading it.

HAPPY PUB DAY!!

I loved this book! Strong female friendships, history, intrigue, romance, conflicting loyalties – Davis covers it all. And if you have problem following the dual timelines, this book does not do that

Woohoo! Starting #24in48.

Currently reading. I‘m a huge Fiona Davis fan and am looking forward to this one!

Sunday afternoon books and baseball. ⚾️ 📚 📖

My choice to take to my surgery today and all of the down time waiting beforehand. I know I need something that will completely grab me and keep my mind off the surgery.

These look like some great books to add to my shelf 📚🤣😳

https://shereads.com/best-historical-fiction-books-2019/

Love this author and can‘t wait for this book to be released!!
Great article !! 📚💗 🍷

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