Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim – 416 pages ARC from Ecco Books for a honest review Book Blurb: Beasts of a Little Land: An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a...
Almost Romance by Nancy Balbirer
Almost Romance by Nancy Balbirer - 189 pages ARC from Amazon Publishing Little A and the author for an honest review Book Blurb: Almost Romance by Nancy Balbirer shows that finding love is all a matter of timing in a surprising, complicated, and funny memoir by the...
Doctors and Friends by Kimmery Martin
Doctors and Friends by Kimmery Martin - 384 pages Book Blurb: Doctors and Friends: Hannah, Compton, and Kira have been close friends since medical school, reuniting once a year for a much-needed vacation. Just as they gather to travel in Spain, an outbreak of a...
Honor by Thrity Umrigar
Honor by Thrity Umrigar – 336 pages ARC from Algonquin Books and Netgalley for a honest review Book Blurb: Honor by Thrity Umrigar Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country...
Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker
Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker – 384 pages ARC from Flatiron for an honest review Book Blurb: It’s the end of the world. Literally. Time travel is possible, but only forward. And only a handful of families choose to remain in the “now,” living off of the scraps left...
Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor
Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor – 336 pages ARC from Harper Perennial for an honest review Book Blurb: Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor shares what happens on a sultry August day in 1922, when Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool. To...
The Secret of Snow by Viola Shipman
The Secret of Snow by Viola Shipman – 320 pages ARC from Graydon House for an honest review Book Blurb: Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist who knows only sunshine and seventy-two-degree days, is being replaced by an AI meteorologist, which the youthful station...
2021 – Best of the Year!
2021 Rocked!! This list is plentiful but when you read as much as I do, there are loads of faves! When the Apricots Bloom by Gina WilkersonThe Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie DraySurviving Savanah by Patti HenryThe Intimacy Experiment by Rosie DananThe...
The Brennans by Tracey Lange
We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange - 288 pages Book Blurb: Tracey Lange shares a a story about when twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes...
What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins
What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins - 416 pages Book Blurb: JoAnne Tompkins takes on what happens after the shocking death of two teenage boys tears apart a community in the Pacific Northwest, a mysterious pregnant girl emerges out of the woods and into the lives of...