We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza โ 336 pagesย ARC from Atria for an honest review Book Blurb Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions....
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr ARC from Scribner for an honest review Book Blurb: In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr creates thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living...
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller โ 400 pages ย Book Blurb: It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at “The Paper Palace”–the family summer place which she has visited every summer of...
Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard โ 464 pagesย Book Blurb: After falling in love in the last years of the 1970s, Eleanor and Cam follow their dream of raising three children on a New Hampshire farm. Theirs is a seemingly idyllic life of summer softball games and Labor...
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult – 336 pagesย ARC from Random House Publishing Group and Netgalley for an honest review.ย Book Blurb: Diana OโToole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New...
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray โ 352 pagesย ARC from Berkley Publishing and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts,...
Review:Mercury by Amy Jo Burns is a story that shows the dysfunction of family in a pretty dysfunctional small town in Pennsylvania. When Marley comes to town with her single mother, she is the one that sets the crux of the book in motion. Her power over the Joseph boys is remarkable and her maturity at this young age was immense. She seemed to be omnipresent at times because she got into all of the Joseph families heads. The authorโs strength is in her multi-layered character building. I felt like a knew each character quite well. I found the discord between Elise and Marley to be incredibly well written. They were the adage of: so close and yet so far.Themes of mental illness, egotistical misogyny, sibling relationships, motherhood, and mystery were all woven through the storyline. Book clubs will get a good discussion out of this one.@burnsamyjo @celadonbooks๐: Do you have any sisters or brothers? #newbookreview#bookreview#bookstagram#bookreader #tbr #addtoTBR #bookreviewer #goodbookfairybookreview #goodbookfairy... See MoreSee Less
Miss your smile. Miss your face. Miss your calls. Miss your laughter. Miss your honesty. Miss you telling me what I needed to hear when I was too fragile to hear it. Miss you telling me the hard truths when I couldn't see straight. Miss not celebrating our birthdays together. I just plain miss you. Enjoy your lemon drop ๐ธ in Heaven. ... See MoreSee Less