Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard โ 464 pagesย Book Blurb: After falling in love in the last years of the 1970s, Eleanor and Cam follow their dream of raising three children on a New Hampshire farm. Theirs is a seemingly idyllic life of summer softball games and Labor...
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult – 336 pagesย ARC from Random House Publishing Group and Netgalley for an honest review.ย Book Blurb: Diana OโToole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New...
Woodrow on the Bench by Jenna Blum – 208 pagesย ARC provided by author for an honest reviewย Book Blurb: โFor anyone whoโs ever loved an old dog.โSince she adopted him as a puppy fifteen years earlier, Jenna Blum and Woodrow have been inseparable. Known to many...
The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoniโ 400 pagesย ARC provided by Netgalley and Lake Union Publishing Book Blurb: In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he...
Lizzy & Dante by Mary Bly โ 302 pagesย Finshed Copy provided by The Dial Press for an honest review Book Blurb: On the heels of a difficult break-up and a devastating diagnosis, Shakespearian scholar Lizzie Delford decides to take one last lavish vacation on Elba,...
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune – Audioย Book Blurb: Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days...
The Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray โ 576 pagesย ARC from Berkley and Netgalley for an honest reviewย Book Blurb: Most castles are protected by men. This one by women. A founding mother… 1774. Gently-bred noblewoman Adrienne Lafayette becomes her...
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett โ 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...
Stories from Suffragette City by M.J. Rose (editor) and Fiona Davis (editor) โ 272 pages ARC from Henry Holt and Co. and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: Stories from Suffragette Cityย is a collection of short stories that all take place on a single day:...
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang โ368 pages Book Blurb: Orphaned, raised by wolves, and the proud owner of a horned pig named Merlin, Weylyn Grey knew he wasnโt like other people. But when he single-handedly stopped that tornado on a stormy...
Review:Mercury by Amy Jo Burns is a story that shows the dysfunction of family in a pretty dysfunctional small town in Pennsylvania. When Marley comes to town with her single mother, she is the one that sets the crux of the book in motion. Her power over the Joseph boys is remarkable and her maturity at this young age was immense. She seemed to be omnipresent at times because she got into all of the Joseph families heads. The authorโs strength is in her multi-layered character building. I felt like a knew each character quite well. I found the discord between Elise and Marley to be incredibly well written. They were the adage of: so close and yet so far.Themes of mental illness, egotistical misogyny, sibling relationships, motherhood, and mystery were all woven through the storyline. Book clubs will get a good discussion out of this one.@burnsamyjo @celadonbooks๐: Do you have any sisters or brothers? #newbookreview#bookreview#bookstagram#bookreader #tbr #addtoTBR #bookreviewer #goodbookfairybookreview #goodbookfairy... See MoreSee Less
Miss your smile. Miss your face. Miss your calls. Miss your laughter. Miss your honesty. Miss you telling me what I needed to hear when I was too fragile to hear it. Miss you telling me the hard truths when I couldn't see straight. Miss not celebrating our birthdays together. I just plain miss you. Enjoy your lemon drop ๐ธ in Heaven. ... See MoreSee Less