Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - Unfortunately I started reading this without reading the flyleaf, and was halfway through, wondering where we were going, when I realized that these were short stories. They take place in the same town, and many of the characters play bit parts in each others' stories. I settled in and enjoyed every word after that. There is a timeline of sorts here, and I ended up loving this book. It's about the people in a small coastal town in Maine, and of course, Olive Kitteridge. You'll know Olive from many different perspectives by the end of the book. It's for you to decide whether or not you like her.The Secret Lives of Teen Girls-What Your Mother Wouldn't Talk about but Your
Daughter Needs to Know by Evelyn Resh - Excellent. It's a non-fiction parenting book, and the author very non-judgmentally shares her life experiences to advise mothers to take joy in their daughters' adolescence. She's not saying this is an easy thing to do. She's just saying that in order to raise a well-adjusted child into a healthy adult, one has to be honest and straightforward, open and thoughtful. Not reactive, not controlling, and certainly not mean or rude. I'll recommend it to all my friends who are mothers of teenage daughters, and even to the mothers of boys who are interacting with these girls. These pages are packed with wisdom. You might not like all that you read within these covers, but I'd ask you to acknowledge that this is written with love. I'd also ask you to acknowledge that each of us is a different entity, and that includes mothers different from daughters. 
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