Wellness by Nathan Hill (Format used for this read: Print–hardback) When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty ’90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to suburban…
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (Format used for this read: Print–Hardback) “My land tells its story if you listen. The story of our family.” Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era.…
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapor (Format used for this read: Print–hardback) This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything,and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It’s a rich…
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then,…
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano What does it mean not just to survive, but to truly live?One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with…
The Neighbor’s Secret by L. Allison Heller Here it is….my first book review of the New Year. (I actually finished two books this morning so I have another one to type up right after this one.) Yall might be sitting there thinking “It’s only JANUARY 3rd, girl. How did you already finish TWO BOOKS?” Do…
The Library of Legends by Janie Chang This book had the perfect set up for being a book I REALLY enjoyed. Historical fiction mixed with some folklore and supernatural and also some real historical learning….PERFECT kind of combo for me. But yall…. I just could NOT get into it. It was beautifully well written but…
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang (Format used for this read: Print–Hardback) Ohhhhhhh….. This book was SUCH a lovely book, my friends. This read was just what I needed, when I needed it and I had no idea that I even needed it to begin with. I just relish in bookworm moments like…
The Star Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman (Format used for this read: Print–hardback) I am not quite sure why I picked this as one of my Book Of The Month suggestion… I’m a very fickle romantic novel type of person. Most of the time they are NOT my thing… but every now…
The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Dare’ (Format used for this book: Print–hardback) I have forced myself to TOTALLY slow my roll with my Book Of The Month boxes. I have little to zero self control when it comes to buying books (ESPECIALLY when they are used, on sale or at a completely…