2013 Mother’s Day Picks
Some of these are on my TBR list (family, please read this as last minute gifts for me) while others are excellent books I’ve read and cherished and would therefore make great Mother’s Day gifts! The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer Fly Away by Kristin Hannah (sequel to...
Letters From Skye
Letters From Skye by Jessica Brockmole -287 pages ARC from Ballantine Books Book Blurb: A sweeping story told in letters, spanning two continents and two world wars, Jessica Brockmole’s atmospheric debut novel captures the indelible ways that people fall in love, and...
Oleander Girl
Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -304 pages Book Blurb: Orphaned at birth, seventeen-year-old Korobi Roy is the scion of a distinguished Kolkata family and has enjoyed a privileged, sheltered childhood with her adoring grandparents. But she is troubled by...
The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat
The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore -307 pages Book Blurb: Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat is home away from home for this inseparable Plainview, Indiana, trio. Dubbed “the Supremes” by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s, they weather life’s...
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure ARC Sourcebooks for an honest review Book Blurb: In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money—and maybe get him killed. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place...
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi -341 pages Book Blurb: Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family...
A Tale For The Time Being
A Tale For The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki -432 pages ARC from Viking Penquin Book Blurb: “A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and everyone of us who is, or was, or ever will be.” In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only...
Fly Away
Fly Away by Kristin Hannah -416 pages ARC from St. Martin’s Press Book Blurb: Once, a long time ago, I walked down a night-darkened road called Firefly Lane, all alone, on the worst night of my life, and I found a kindred spirit. That was our beginning. More than...
Jacob’s Folly by Rebecca Miller
Jacob’s Folly by Rebecca Miller -371 pages Book Blurb: Jacob’s Folly is a rollicking, ingenious, saucy book, brimful of sparkling, unexpected characters, that takes on desire, faith, love, acting—and reincarnation. In eighteenth-century Paris, Jacob Cerf is a Jew, a...
The Tin Horse
The Tin Horse by Janice Steinberg -352 pages Book Blurb: After years of resistance to the idea, feisty octogenarian Elaine Greenstein finally decides to move from the home in which she raised her family to a retirement community. While she's packing her possessions,...
