A Beautiful Terrible Thing:Β A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal by Jen Waiteβ 272 pages Book Blurb: What do you do when you discover that the person you’ve built your life around never existed? When “it could never happen to me”Β doesΒ happen to...
Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long IslandΒ by ReginaΒ CalcaterraΒ – 320 pages Book Blurb: ReginaΒ CalcaterraΒ is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was...
Educated by Tara Westoverβ 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...
Being A Dog: Following The Dog Into A World Of Smell by Alexandra Horowitz β Audio Book Blurb: With her family dogs, Finnegan and Upton, leading the way, Horowitz sets off on a quest to make sense of scents, combining a personal journey of smelling with a tour through...
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vanceβ 272 pages Book Blurb: Vanceβs grandparents were βdirt poor and in love.β 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...
Once Upon A Secret by Mimi Alfordβ 198 pages Book Blurb: In the summer of 1962, nineteen-year-old Mimi Beardsley arrived in Washington, D.C., to begin an internship in the White House press office. After just three days on the job, the privileged but sheltered young...
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