Tell Me How To Be by Neel Patel (Format used for this read: Audiobook) Renu Amin always seemed perfect: doting husband, beautiful house, healthy sons. But as the one-year anniversary of her husband’s death approaches, Renu is binge-watching soap operas and simmering with old resentments. She can’t stop wondering if, thirty-five years ago, she chose…
You Can’t Be Serious by Kal Penn (Format used for this read: Audiobook) When I told my husband I was reading Kal Penn’s autobiography he was like “Uhhh….Why?” I have not been known to be a huge Kal Penn superfan. In fact, I have not been known to be a fan at all 😬 To…
The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar This was another treasure of a book I found on the shelves of a local Goodwill. This author has been recommended to me many times over—and I can not remember who it was who did so 🤦♀️. Whoever you were out there, let me just say THANK YOU.…
Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee (Format used for this read: Print–hardback) I know I have said before that one of my favoritest places in the whole wide world is a used bookstore. And I will keep saying it over and over and over again because it is one of MY LIFE TRUTHS. Visiting a “new…
A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Miza (Format used for this book: Audiobook) This novel was heartbreaking and heartwarming all at the same time…stories about families usually are….because in real life families are exactly a bizarre mix of those things. Here is a summary: “As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents…