Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie – 464 pages Book Blurb: Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson. She will...
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The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner – 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...
2020 Holiday Gift Giving
Enjoy this list of books to give and get for the holiday. All books are linked to either my website or Amazon. If I've reviewed it, the link will take you to my website. (I'm doing my best to review as quickly as I read.) If not, you'll be directed to Amazon. Every...
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig– 288 pages ARC from Viking and Netgalley for an honest reviewBook Blurb: Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the...
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman – 416 pages ARC from Simon and Schuster and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she’s abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby....
Pretending by Holly Bourne
Pretending by Holly Bourne – 416 pages ARC from Mira Books for an honest review Book Blurb: April is kind, pretty and relatively normal—yet she can’t seem to get past date five. Every time she thinks she’s found someone to trust, they reveal themselves to be awful,...
The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke
The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke – 336 pages ARC from Ballantine Books and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Concert pianist Diana is finally ready to marry her longtime fiance, Arie; she's even composing a beautiful love song for him, and finishes it while...
Courting Mr. Lincoln by Louis Bayard
Courting Mr. Lincoln by Louis Bayard – 381 pages Book Blurb: When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one's shortlist to be president. Rough and reticent, he’s a country lawyer lacking money and manners, living above a dry...
The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman
The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman – 400 pages ARC from Berkley and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: Since the day Filomena Fontana cast a curse upon her sister more than two hundred years ago, not one second-born Fontana daughter...
A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne
A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne - 465 pages ARC from Doubleday and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: It starts with a family, a family which will mutate. For now, it is a father, mother and two sons. One with his father’s violence in his...