Today our book club members traveled across the Atlantic Ocean in The Expats by Chris Pavone. Kate Moore, the novel’s heroine, sheds her old life to take on a new role as a stay-at-home mom when her husband accepts a job in Luxembourg. Soon she realizes that shedding her former, more exciting life was not as easy as it seemed.
Join our bloggers as we discuss motherhood, traveling, secrets, double lives, and much more. Here are their thoughts as inspired by The Expats:
- Charlotte of I (Don’t) Know Mommy has a “no secrets” rule in her family
- Eunice C. from Random Walk Down Mommy Street ponders the idea of a working mother
- Lorien at kaenix.com wants to nurture her daughter’s creativity and passion
- Carrie of poet in the pantry discusses the dual lives of others
- Rebecca from Life Of An Army Wife wonders when lies are appropriate in a marriage
- Marianne at Writer-Mommy can’t believe that Kate compartmentalized her life so well
- Brenda Bartella Peterson of Grit and Grace recalls a giant mistake
- Brittnee Henry is surprised by an expat’s double lives
- Alicia S from Titere con Bonete shares her secret lives as a mom
- Carrie at Making Lemonade offers her top places to move without actually moving
- Neena of hooey!critic encourages her children to share their big secrets
- Alison Abbott from Green With Renvy struggles to between secrets and transparency
- Meghan Harvey at Meg’s Idle Chatter is inspired to research living in Luxembourg
- Michelle of Honest & Truly! misses living in Europe
- Nicole from Not Just a Working Mom ate three different sausages in one day
- melanie at tales from the crib dreams of escaping the mundane
- Jen Bush of Anybody Want A Peanut? didn’t choose to be mother of a special needs child
- Tracy from Tracy’s Nook have parents that love to travel
- Janaki at More Than Four Sides hoped to marry an Englishman
- Jodi of Jodifur lives a double life
- Emily from Nap Time is My Time is coming clean about her online life
- Sandboxmoxie tackles life in Dubai head on
- Amy at Occupation: Mommy debates pros and cons of living abroad
- Bay Queen from Mother Blog is a terrible liar
- Amy Heinz of Using Our Words shares her secret about being a stay at home mom
- Karen at Time Crafted is a pro at moving to new places
- Janin Wise from Wise Ramblings offers three not so secrets to marriage
- Taylor Usry of The Quiet Moments, Page 2 dreams of weekend trips
- The Polished Bookworm plays a little game of what if?
- Nancy at The Real Nani waxes nostolgia for her pre-kid days
- Julie from A Good Joe debates on telling a secret
- Shannon of Make Time For Love isn’t allowed to talk about her (former) job
- Michelle L at Mkokopelli misses her kids even as she works from home
- Eva Green-Wilson from SocaMom.com shares some things you didn’t know about her
- Cindy Fey of We All Fall Down skis not quite as dangerously as Kate Moore
- Robin (noteverstill) at The Not-Ever-Still Life revisits home, sort of
- Anna from Girl with Blog practices honesty in her marriage
The Expats offers plenty of twists and turns, a Rubik’s cube of intrigue, as one of our members wrote. Make sure to grab a copy of the novel and let us know what you think.
What sort of secrets lurk in your life?
