The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
What does it mean to be alive? To live? To have lived? When Addie is faced with a marriage she …
The Silent Patient
Psychological thriller is not my usual read, and a good diversion to add to the mix. Alicia Berenson has killed …
Fashion Matters
Do shoes make the woman?
Generations
What brings us back to ourselves and binds us to those we love? The signal fires … of home and …
#MeToo
Boarding schools are, it would seem, an abundant setting for story. I suppose islands are, too, for nearly the same …
Long live the Rom-Com
I read this in a day. Not a beach day. Not a day set aside for reading. A Monday. Because …
Cloud Cuckoo Land
I hesitated to read this mainly because of it’s literal heft … reading in bed with this was not easy. …
Back to the beginning …
In this latest installment of character Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout returns us to the beginning of the global upheaval when …
Two tissues required
luminous and tender
Remember 2017? That angsty post-election trauma? This novel brings it all back through the lives of cousins and their family …
Transcendent Kingdom
It feels so lame to say: the only word to describe this book is TRANSCENDENT. The writing, the ethereal essence, …
The Giver of Stars
Part love story, part ode to literature, part ode to LIBRARIANS, this historical fiction set in the Great Depression is …
Slow Motion
I chose the book for the title … it’s been sitting on a pile of to-read for, um, two (three?) …
Deacon King Kong
I found this charming and I couldn’t wait each night to return to these characters. The harsh reality of the …
Gathering well
I heard Priya Parker interviewed on Brené Brown’s podcast Unlocking Us and was intrigued enough to purchase the book. Partly, …
The Night Watchman
After/during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, I started following more BIPOC Instagrammers and especially book-y types. And I …
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