The Center of Everything : A Novel
 

The Center of Everything : A Novel

by Laura Moriarty

Evelyn Bucknow lives with her single mother, Tina, in a small apartment in Kansas. Though warm and loving, Tina is young, immature, and prone to hasty decisions that create a precarious financial situation for her increasingly anxious daughter. When a failed romance with her married boss leaves Tina jobless and desperate, Evelyn turns to her grandmother to distance herself from her mother's... (read more)

Top tags: coming of agefictioncontemporary fictionmothers and daughterschick lit (all tags)

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Crazy Lady Book Club 74 books / 15 members / 6 posts We are a group of educators, always encouraging reading for our students, but finding little time to read on our own. Hence, the creation of a book club so we would force ourselves to "practice what we preach". Sometimes we eat and chat more than discuss books, but the underlying current is READING.
Book Chat 831 books / 1821 members / 6020 posts Welcome to Book Chat!

Instead of being about a particular book, author or genre this group is about books and reading in general. Discussions have covered a wide variety of topics, from bookmarks, to book type preference (paperback, hardcover or trade paperback) to book-to-movie tie-ins, to where and when you read and even what started you reading.

We also have some fun new projects starting and we hope you will join us.

Tenia has started a Secret Reader (aka Secret Santa) where we will exchange gently used books.

Tenia has also started a monthly book read. Our first group read will start in January and we are currently taking votes on several books that were nominated for the fiction genre.

We are also currently taking nominations for books for February and March. Our February read will be horror and our March read will be chick lit.

A discussion book raffle of sorts will be starting very soon so be sure to check back for details.

Feel free to pop-in and have a look around. We would love to have you join us for some discussion and fun.

Your admins...Kelly and Tenia
What are you reading? 2471 books / 5858 members / 14001 posts This group is for anyone, of any background or age group, who is interested in talking about...Books.

Books you want to read, have read, are reading, books you have heard of and not yet read.
Books of any genre.
You are welcome to ask for recommendations or opinions.


The Girls Club 46 books / 1 members / 0 posts Women's book club...chatting, eating, drinking and reading.
Reading is the Coolest thing Ever 107 books / 123 members / 64 posts For people who love to read just about anything and think that reading is the coolest thing EVER!! Hahaha! :)
Books I have read so far in 2007 208 books / 19 members / 4 posts Just keeping a record of what I read x
My Book Club 60 books / 3 members / 1 posts A group of women in the tri-cities who love books, coffee and tea, and lively discussion.
The "I Don't Care What You Think" Book Club 5 books / 5 members / 119 posts I picked the title to be ironic (duh).
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