Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi โ 464 pages ARC from William Morrow and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family,ย Sitara Zamaniย lives a privileged life in Afghanistanโs thriving cosmopolitan capital. The 1970s are a...
The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman – 304 pages Finished copy provided by Kensington Booksย for an honest review. Book Blurb: In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphiaโs overcrowded slums and the...
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Pennerย โ 320 pages ARC provided by Park Row and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: One cold February evening in 1791, at the back of a dark London alley in a hidden apothecary shop, Nella awaits her newest customer. Once a...
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey โ 256 pages ARC courtesy of Tor Books for an honest review Book Blurb: Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn Caldwellโs award-winning research. Sheโs patient and gentle and obedient. Sheโs everything Evelyn swore sheโd...
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue โ 288 pages ARC courtesy Little, Brown and Co. for an honest review Book Blurb: In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who...
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealedย by Lori Gottlieb โ 415 pages Book Blurb: One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing...
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