Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao β Audio Book Blurb: When Poornima first meets Savitha, she feels something she thought she lost for good when her mother died: hope. Poornima’s father hires Savitha to work one of their sari looms, and the two girls are quickly...
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore by 320 pages ARC sent by Harper Collins in exchange for review Book Blurb: Itβs February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the townβs men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately...
Β Long Bright River by Liz Moore β 496 pages Finished copy from Riverhead Books in exchange for an honest review Book Blurb: In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the...
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman β 372 pages ARC from Simon and Schuster and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review Book Blurb: In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from...
Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg β336 pages and Audio ARC from Scribner in exchange for an honest review. Book Blurb: Feast Your Eyes, framed as the catalogue notes from a photography show at the Museum of Modern Art, tells the life story of Lillian Preston:...
Β The Dutch House by Ann Patchett β352 pages ARC provided from Harper and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his...
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