The Memory Thief
The Memory Thief by Emily Colin -417 pages Book Blurb: When Madeleine Kimble’s husband Aiden dies in a mountain climbing accident, Maddie can only think of his earnest promise to return to her and their young son. Aiden’s best friend J.C. feels great remorse over his...
The People Of Forever Are Not Afraid
The People Of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Bioanjiu-336 pages ARC from Random House Book Blurb: Yael, Avishag, and Lea grow up together in a tiny, dusty Israeli village, attending a high school made up of caravan classrooms, passing notes to each other to alleviate...
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Still Alice by Lisa Genova-292 pages Book Blurb: Alice Howland - Harvard professor, gifted researcher and lecturer, wife, and mother of three grown children - sets out for a run and soon realizes she has no idea how to find her way home. She has taken the route for...
Love Anthony by Lisa Genova
Love Anthony by Lisa Genova-303 pages Book Blurb: Two women, each cast adrift by unforeseen events in their lives, meet by accident on a Nantucket beach and are drawn into a friendship. Olivia is a young mother whose eight-year-old severely autistic son has recently...
The Round House
The Round House by Louise Erdrich -336 pages Book Blurb: One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal...
2012 Best Books
Here it is folks, my best reads of 2012 list. An an FYI, this also means they were published in 2012. Goodness knows, there were lots of books that I read and reviewed this year that came out before 2012 that I both adored and abhorred. Check out the 2012 books read...
The End Of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
The End Of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe -352 pages Book Blurb: “What are you reading?” That’s the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2007, Mary Anne returned from...
The Winter Witch
The Winter Witch by Paula Brackston -340 pages ARC from St. Martins Press Book Blurb: In her small Welsh town, there is no one quite like Morgana. She has never spoken, and her silence as well as the magic she can't quite control make her a mystery. Concerned for her...
The Casual Vacancy
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling -503 pages Book Blurb: When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the...
Free Gift With Purchase
Free Gift With Purchase by Jackie Pilossoph – 249 pages ARC courtesy of the author Book Blurb: Emma and Laura are about as different as two sisters can be. Emma's always been the party girl, Laura, the hardworking doctor. But now, the two have something in common....
