Beauty in the Broken Places: A memoir of Love, Faith and Resilience by Allison Pataki โ 272 pages Book Blurb: Five months pregnant, on a flight to their โbabymoon,โ Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched him suddenly...
Educated by Tara Westoverโ 352 pages Book Blurb: Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her...
The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief and Manipulation- Audio Book Blurb: In The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief and Manipulation, Melissa Rivers relates funny, poignant and irreverent observations, thoughts, and tales about the woman who raised her and is...
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vanceโ 272 pages Book Blurb: Vanceโs grandparents were โdirt poor and in love.โ They got married and moved north from Kentucky to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. Their grandchild (the author) graduated from Yale...
Born A Crime by Trevor Noah โ Audio Book Blurb: Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk ofย The Daily Showย began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a...
Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrickโ Audio Version Book Blurb: Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films likeย Pitch Perfect,ย Up in the Air,ย Twilight, andย Into the Woods, Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird, and โ10 percent...
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