Good Book Fairy | Best Book Reviews by Lauren Margolin

Sea Change by Karen White

Jun 27, 2013 | Fiction, Mothers/Daughters, Mystery, Suspense, Year 2013

Sea Change by Karen White -416 pages Book Blurb: For Ava Whalen, a new marriage and a move to St. Simons Island means a new beginning. But what she doesn’t realize is that her marriage will take her on an unexpected journey into the deep recesses of her past that will...

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Jun 22, 2013 | Book Club, England, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Time Travel, Year 2013

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson - 529 pages Book Blurb: On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and his wife. Sadly, she dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula...

Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots

Jun 14, 2013 | Fiction, Food, Mothers/Daughters, Year 2013

Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots by Jessica Soffer - 336 pages Book Blurb: This is a story about accepting the people we love—the people we have to love and the people we choose to love, the families we’re given and the families we make. It’s the story of two women...

Together Tea by Marjan Kamali

Jun 10, 2013 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Iran, Mothers/Daughters, Year 2013

Together Tea by Marjan Kamali - 318 pages Book Blurb: In Together Tea, Marjan Kamali’s delightful and heartwarming debut novel, Darya has discovered the perfect gift for her daughter’s twenty-fifth birthday: an ideal husband. Mina, however, is fed up with her mother’s...

Meeting Judy Blume

Jun 10, 2013 | Updates, Year 2013

I clearly remember my fourth grade classroom's reading shelf in Mrs. Goldsmith’s classroom at Potomac Elementary School in Maryland. On that shelf there was a book that seemed to attract every girl in the class for in held the secrets to our feelings, our discomfort,...

And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

Jun 6, 2013 | Afghanistan, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Year 2013

And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini - 404 pages Book Blurb: In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and...

2013 Father’s Day Picks

Jun 4, 2013 | Lists, Year 2013

With Father’s Day just around the corner, I’ve compiled a list of books that have been highly promoted for this upcoming father’s day. Enjoy your day dads! The Son by Philipp Meyer The Execution of Noa P. Singleton by Elizabeth L. Silver The Gift of Fire by Dan...

The Conditions Of Love

May 30, 2013 | Coming Of Age, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Year 2013

The Conditions Of Love by Dale M. Kushner - 384 pages Book Blurb: Dale M. Kushner's novel The Conditions of Love traces the journey of a girl from childhood to adulthood as she reckons with her parents' abandonment, her need to break from society's limitations, and...

Girl In Translation by Jean Kwok

May 26, 2013 | Asian, China, Coming Of Age, Favorites, Fiction, Historical Fiction, New York, Year 2013

Girl In Translation by Jean Kwok -304 pages Book Blurb: When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings....

Big Girl Panties

May 25, 2013 | Chick Lit / Women's Fiction, Didn't Finish, Romance, Year 2013

Big Girl Panties by Stephanie Evanovich -336 pages ARC from William Morrow Book Blurb: Holly Brennan didn't expect to be a widow at thirty-two. She also didn't expect to be so big. Through her husband Bruce's diagnosis and death, food was the one thing she could...