{"id":38611,"date":"2020-12-15T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=38611"},"modified":"2020-12-12T12:16:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T18:16:47","slug":"december-celebrity-book-club-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/december-celebrity-book-club-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"December Celebrity Book Club Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jenna Bush Hager has selected The Bluest Eye <\/strong><\/em><\/a>by Toni Morrison\u00a0for her December #ReadwithJenna book club pick<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Curious what\u00a0The Bluest Eye<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

Pecola Breedlove, a young eleven-year-old black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dreams grow more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity.<\/em><\/p>\n

Want to make sure that Jenna\u2019s picks are automatically put on hold for you? Be sure to join our\u00a0Best Sellers Club<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Reese Witherspoon has selected The Chicken Sisters<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by KJ Dell’Antonia\u00a0as the December pick for her book club<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Curious what The Chicken Sisters<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster.<\/em><\/p>\n

In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi’s and Chicken Frannie’s have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state–and the legendary feud between their respective owners, the Moores and the Pogociellos, has lasted just as long. No one feels the impact more than thirty-five-year-old widow Amanda Moore, who grew up working for her mom at Mimi’s before scandalously marrying Frank Pogociello and changing sides to work at Frannie’s. Tired of being caught in the middle, Amanda sends an SOS to Food Wars, the reality TV restaurant competition that promises $100,000 to the winner. But in doing so, she launches both families out of the frying pan and directly into the fire. . .<\/em><\/p>\n

The last thing Brooklyn-based organizational guru Mae Moore, Amanda’s sister, wants is to go home to Kansas. But when her career implodes, Food Wars becomes her chance to step back into the limelight. Mae is certain she can make the fading Mimi’s look good–even if that pits her against Amanda and Frannie’s. With a greedy producer stoking the flames, their friendly rivalry quickly turns into a game of chicken. Yet when family secrets become public knowledge, the sisters must choose: Will they fight with each other, or for their heritage?<\/em><\/p>\n

Reese\u2019s picks are automatically put on hold for you? Be sure to join our\u00a0Best Sellers Club<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jenna Bush Hager has selected The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison\u00a0for her December #ReadwithJenna book club pick. Curious what\u00a0The Bluest Eye is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher. Pecola Breedlove, a young eleven-year-old black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[2352,5268,5563,402,5267,5562,3842],"class_list":["post-38611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-african-american","tag-best-sellers-club","tag-breedlove","tag-fiction","tag-jenna-bush-hager","tag-the-bluest-eye","tag-toni-morrison"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-a2L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38611"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38764,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38611\/revisions\/38764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}