The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See β374 pages Book Blurb: Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their villageβs...
The Crate: A Story of War, A Murder and Justice by Deborah Vadas Levison β 358 pages Book Blurb: After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust β in ghettos, on death marches, and in concentration camps β a young couple seeks refuge in Canada. They settle into a new...
The Only Woman In The Room by Marie Benedict – 243Β pages Book Blurb: She was beautiful. She was a genius. Could the world handle both? A powerful, illuminating novel about Hedy Lamarr.Β Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a...
The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner β 389 pages Book Blurb: Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943–aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on...
Eternal Life by Dana Horn β 356 pages Book Blurb: Rachel is a woman with a problem: she canβt die. Her recent troublesβwidowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged sonβare only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, and...
Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morrisβ 352 pages Book Blurb: Entrada de la Luna is the sort of town that ambitious children try to leave behind them. Poor health, broken marriages, and poverty are the norm, and luck is unusual. So when Miguel Torres notices an...
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