Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts β 368 pages ARC from Netgalley and Ballantine in exchange for an honest review Book Blurb: Maud Gage Baum, widow of the author of the bookΒ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, met Judy Garland, the young actress playing the role of Dorothy on...
The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves – 291 pages ARC courtesy of NetGalley and St. Martins Press for an honest review. Book Blurb: βAnnika” (rhymes with Monica) Rose is an English major at the University of Illinois. Anxious in social...
Β The Cast by Amy Blumenfeld – 300 pages Book Blurb: Twenty-five years ago, a group of ninth graders produced a Saturday Night Live-style videotape to cheer up their ailing friend. The showβs running time was only ninety minutes, but it had a lasting impact:...
The Fourteenth of September by Rita Dragonette β 385 pages ARC sent from JKS Comm. in exchange for an honest review. Book Blurb: On September 14, 1969, Private First Class Judy Talton celebrates her nineteenth birthday by secretly joining the campus anti-Vietnam War...
The Good Liar by Catherine McKenzie β 373 pages Book Blurb: When an explosion rips apart a Chicago building, the lives of three women are forever altered. A year later, Cecily is in mourning. She was supposed to be in the building that day. Instead, she stood on the...
Windy City Blues by Renee Rosenβ 448 pages ARC courtesy of author Book Blurb: In the middle of the twentieth century, the music of the Mississippi Delta arrived in Chicago, drawing the attention of entrepreneurs like the Chess brothers. Their label, Chess Records,...
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 authorβs 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 @celadonbooksπ: 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 πΈ in Heaven. ... See MoreSee Less