Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea โ 480 pages ย ARC from Little Brown and Co. and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancรฉ in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in...
The First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray ย โ Audio ARC from GP Putnam and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart...
Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb โ Audio ARC from PRH Audio and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Bern Hendricks has just received the call of a lifetime. As one of the worldโs preeminent experts on the famed twentieth-century composer Frederick...
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal โ Audio ARC from PRH Audio for an honest review Book Blurb: Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her...
The Cuban Heiress by Chanel Cleeton ย โ Audio ย ARC from PRH Audio and Berkley for an honest review The Cuban Heiress by Chanel Cleeton ย โ Audio ย ARC from PRH Audio and Berkley for an honest review Book Blurb: In 1934, a luxury cruise becomes a fight for survival as...
The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel โ 384 pages ARC from Gallery Booksย and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of...
Every day I clean the Winchestersโ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a... read more
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