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....
Sorry For The Delay!
Sorry For The Delay! As a newer book blogger/reviewer it pains me to not have a new book review for such a long time. Not only because it means that I haven’t read (finished) anything in a while, but also because I want to stay current and have a new review for you...
The Chaperone
The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty - 367 pages Book Blurb: Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New...
Vaclav & Lena by Haley Tanner
Vaclav and Lena by Haley Tanner - 288 pages Book Blurb: Vaclav and Lena seem destined for each other. They meet as children in an ESL class in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Vaclav is precocious and verbal. Lena, struggling with English, takes comfort in the safety of his...
The House At Tyneford
The House At Tyneford by Natasha Solomons - 355 pages Book Blurb: It's the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau is forced to leave her glittering life of parties and champagne to become a parlor maid in England. She...
The Holocaust Survivor’s Cookbook by Joanne Caras
Holocaust Survivor Cookbook by Joanne Caras - 350 pages Book Blurb: After Joanne Caras visited the Carmei Ha’ir Soup Kitchen in Jerusalem she came home to America determined to raise money to help them feed poor Israelis. For two years the Caras family worked...
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