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K.J. Dell'Antonia

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KJ Dell’Antonia is the author of the The Chicken Sisters, a New York Times bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon book club pick and a timely, humorous exploration of the same themes she has long focused on in her journalism: the importance of finding joy in our families, the challenge of figuring out what makes us happy and the need to value the people in front of us more than the ones in our phones and laptops, every single time.

Her next novel, In Her Boots, about the gap between the adults we think we have become, the child our mother will always see and our horrible fear that our mother is right, is coming Summer 2022 and is available for pre-order now.

She wrote and edited the Motherlode blog at the New York Times and is also the author of th ...more

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	The Chicken Sisters 3.40 avg rating — 31,962 ratings — published 2020 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to be a Happier Parent: Raising a Family, Having a Life, and Loving (Almost) Every Minute 3.86 avg rating — 1,619 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Playing the Witch Card 3.26 avg rating — 1,430 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Her Boots 3.66 avg rating — 1,267 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Being 40 by Lindsey Mead (Editor), Janina Edwards (Narrator), Madeleine Maby (Narrator) 3.49 avg rating — 953 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reading with Babies, Toddlers and Twos: A Guide to Choosing, Reading and Loving Books Together by K.J. Dell'Antonia (Goodreads Author), Susan Straub 3.85 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[KJ Dell'Antonia]-[The Chicken Sisters]-[Paperback ] 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Do I take a lot of trips? I do! Do I take a lot of books? HECK YEAH I have a horror of ending up on a plane without a good book. Yes, my ereader mostly should have relieved me of that problem BUT STILL. What if it suddenly didn’t really download even though I checked it three times? What if the battery goes “poop!” What if I sit on it or drop it in the seat and then try […]

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“The spaces around us reflect the spaces inside us, and when those things don’t go together, that’s how we know we need to make a change.”
― K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters: Reese's Book Club

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“Did wanting something more mean you regretted everything that led to what you’d got?”
― K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters: Reese's Book Club

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“A book--a real book--is one choice, taken from a pile, opened and entered as its own singular, separate world. Once chosen, you are not holding the constant opportunity to alter or improve your choice, or simply change it just for the sake of restless change. You are there, now, without the relentless pressure of the fact that you could always be, and maybe you should be, maybe you’d be happier or more productive or different, doing something else. It's a choice I hope my kids will decide to make, often.”
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The Sanatorium

by Sarah Pearse

10 votes, 32.3%

This Is How It Always Is

by Laurie Frankel

4 votes, 12.9%

The Scent Keeper

by Erica Bauermeister

3 votes, 9.7%

Whisper Network

by Chandler Baker

3 votes, 9.7%

The Chicken Sisters

by K.J. Dell'Antonia

3 votes, 9.7%

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

by Balli Kaur Jaswal

3 votes, 9.7%

The Jetsetters

by Amanda Eyre Ward

2 votes, 6.5%

Infinite Country

by Patricia Engel

1 vote, 3.2%

The Last Mrs. Parrish

by Liv Constantine

1 vote, 3.2%

The Cactus

by Sarah Haywood

1 vote, 3.2%

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