The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett – 343 pages Book Blurb: The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is...
He Started It by Samantha Downing
He Started It by Samantha Downing – 384 pages ARC from Berkley and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan haven't all been together in years. And for very good reasons—we'll get to those later. But when their wealthy grandfather...
Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir by Meredith O’Brien
Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir by Meredith O’Brien- 266 pages Book Blurb: Book Blurb It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a “mass” on her brainstem, it takes two more years for Meredith O’Brien to learn what is causing that...
Exile Music by Jennifer Steil
Exile Music by Jennifer Steil – 415 pages ARC from Viking and Netgalley for an honest review.Book Blurb: As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother is...
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi – 256 pages ARC from Riverhead Books and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at...
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman – 352 pages ARC from Atria for an honest review. Book Blurb: A bank robber on the run locks himself in with an over-enthusiastic estate agent, two bitter IKEA-addicts, a pregnant woman, a suicidal multi-millionaire and a rabbit. In...
Fast Girls by Elise Hooper
Fast Girls by Elise Hooper – 512pages ARC from William Morrow and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: In the 1928 Olympics, Chicago’s Betty Robinson competes as a member of the first-ever women’s delegation in track and field. Destined for further glory, she...
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld - 416 pages ARC from Random House and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech, she’s attending Yale Law School, and...
2020 Fall & Early Winter Book Picks
There are a tremendous amount of books coming out this fall and early winter, which I suppose is due to the delay in production during covid. Because of the enormity of books coming out, selecting which titles to put on this list was not an...
The Lines We Leave Behind by Eliza Graham
The Lines We Leave Behind by Eliza Graham – 308 pages ARC from Lake Union for an honest reviewBook Blurb: England, 1947: A young woman finds herself under close observation in an insane asylum, charged with a violent crime she has no memory of committing. As she tries...
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