On Leaving: Round Two
On Leaving: Round Two – June, 2015 Three years ago, I wrote a piece (attached here) about my first born leaving the nest. It went semi-viral which was complimentary, but certainly not my intent. For me, writing is therapeutic and I shared my sentiments as a comfort to...
Inside the O’Briens by Lisa Genova
Inside The O’Briens by Lisa Genova– 352 pages Book Blurb: Joe O’Brien is a forty-four-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected officer,...
The Mapmaker’s Children by Sarah McCoy
The Mapmaker’s Children by Sarah McCoy– 320 pages Book Blurb: When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad’s leading...
Finding The Time To Read
Finding The Time To Read! I was recently at a networking meeting and was not only promoting goodbookfairy.com, but also preaching about the importance of reading. After the meeting, a woman told with me that she has no time to read anymore and wanted to know where I...
Queen Of The Tearling by Erika Johansen
Queen Of The Tearling by Erika Johansen– 448 pages Book Blurb: On her nineteenth birthday, Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, raised in exile, sets out on a perilous journey back to the castle of her birth to ascend her rightful throne. Plain and serious, a girl who loves...
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast– 228 pages Book Blurb: In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos,...
The Travels of Daniel Ascher by Deborah Levy-Bertherat
The Travels of Daniel Ascher by Deborah Levy-Bertherat, translated by Adriana Hunter– 208 pages ARC from Net Galley Book Blurb: Who is the real author of The Black Insignia? Is it H. R. Sanders, whose name is printed on the cover of every installment of the wildly...
Imaginary Things by Andrea Lochen
Imaginary Things by Andrea Lochen– 368 pages ARC from publisher Book Blurb: Burned-out and broke, twenty-two-year-old single mother Anna Jennings moves to her grandparents' rural home for the summer with her four-year-old son, David. The sudden appearance of shadowy...
At The Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen
At The Waters Edge by Sara Gruen– 368 pages Book Blurb: After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year’s Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis’s father, a former army Colonel who is...
Perfect Peace by Daniel Black
Perfect Peace by Daniel Black– 341 pages Book Blurb: When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns eight, her mother Emma Jean tells her bewildered daughter, “You was born a boy. I made you a girl. But that ain’t what you was supposed to be. So,...
