Good Book Fairy | Best Book Reviews by Lauren Margolin

All The Best People by Sonja Yoerg

Mar 29, 2017 | Family, Favorites, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Magic, Medical, Mental Health, Motherhood, Mothers/Daughters, Year 2017

All The Best People by Sonja Yoerg – 368 pages Book Blurb: Vermont, 1972. Carole LaPorte has a satisfying, ordinary life. She cares for her children, balances the books for the family’s auto shop and laughs when her husband slow dances her across the kitchen floor....

The Mother’s Promise by Sally Hepworth

Mar 29, 2017 | Beach Read, Chick Lit / Women's Fiction, Fiction, Friendship, Medical, Mental Health, Motherhood, Mothers/Daughters, Year 2017

The Mother’s Promise by Sally Hepworth– 368 pages ARC courtesy of Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press Book Blurb: Alice and her daughter Zoe have been a family of two all their lives. Zoe has always struggled with crippling social anxiety and her mother has been her...

The Fortunate Ones by Ellen Umansky

Mar 28, 2017 | Art, California, Family, Fiction, Friendship, Historical Fiction, Holocaust, London, Mystery, WW2, Year 2017

The Fortunate Ones by Ellen Umansky – 324 pages Book Blurb: 1939 in Vienna, Rose Zimmer’s parents are desperate. Unable to get out of Austria, they manage to secure passage for their young daughter on a kindertransport, and send her to live with strangers in England. ...

Born A Crime by Trevor Noah

Mar 21, 2017 | African, African American or Black, Audio, Autobiography, Coming Of Age, Favorites, Memoir, Year 2017

Born A Crime by Trevor Noah – Audio Book Blurb: Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was...

The Dressmaker’s Dowry by Meredith Jaeger

Mar 19, 2017 | Beach Read, California, Chick Lit / Women's Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Romance, San Francisco, Year 2017

The Dressmaker’s Dowry by Meredith Jaeger – 384 pages Book Blurb: An exquisite ring, passed down through generations, connects two women who learn that love is a choice, and forgiveness is the key to freedom... San Francisco: 1876 - Immigrant dressmakers Hannelore...

Playing With Fire by Tess Gerritsen

Mar 19, 2017 | Audio, Beach Read, Boston, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Italy, Music, Thriller, WW2, Year 2017

Playing With Fire by Tess Gerritsen – Audio Book Blurb: The first time Julia Ansdell picks up The Incendio Waltz, she knows it’s a strikingly unusual composition. But while playing the piece, Julia blacks out and awakens to find her young daughter implicated in acts...

News Of The World by Paulette Jiles

Mar 12, 2017 | Adventure, Civil War, Historical Fiction, Native American

News Of The World by Paulette Jiles – Audio Book Blurb: In the aftermath of the American Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this morally complex, multi-layered novel of historical fiction...

A Piece Of The World by Christina Baker Kline

Mar 10, 2017 | Art, Family, Favorites, Historical Fiction, Sisters/Brothers, Year 2017

A Piece Of The World by Christina Baker Kline – 320 pages Book Blurb: To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly...

2017 Spring Break Reads

Mar 7, 2017 | Lists, Year 2017

The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle - A total page turner to find out "who done it?". The Good Goodbye by Carla Buckley - One of my favorites from 2016! The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright - If you loved the movie...

2017 Spring Break Picks

Mar 7, 2017 | Lists, Year 2017

2017 Spring Break Books For years, I've been calling this list my Spring Break Picks. It's ironic because my kids are grown and flown and really, we haven't been on a spring vacation in years. Even when my kids were in college, they never shared the same week off. So...