Time to restock your TBR!
How have you been, gang? Read anything good lately? I’ve been finding some great reads and hope you have, too! Here are a few I’ve enjoyed lately. - Kristan
After reading Daisy Darker, I’ll read anything Alice Feeney writes
After reading Daisy Darker, I’ll read anything Alice Feeney writes. Good Bad Girl is a wonderful, twisting story of four women—Edith, Cleo, Frankie and Patience. How they’re all linked is a complete mystery, though, and not one I could wrangle before it was revealed in a most satisfying sentence. Edith, a crusty and cranky octagenerian, lives in a care …
The premise is brilliantly creative
At the recommendation of a friend, I downloaded this book and spent the next 17 hours transfixed. Be careful what you wish for is the lesson of this novel. Adeline LaRue, about to be married to man she has not even met, begs God to spare her. When that one doesn’t answer, she prays to the gods who answer after dark…and one comes through. Make me free, A…
Only Pam Jenoff could entwine these two remarkable storylines
In post-WWII England, Louise is struggling to find her footing as a housewife and mum. After all, she was part of the war, went to France, visited POWs. When she comes across a necklace at a thrift shop, she is convinced she’s seen it before…and that it might lead to answers about the death of her friend, which was ruled an accident.
Everything I want in women’s fiction
Incandescent with humor, wisdom and vulnerability, The Wedding People was everything I want in women’s fiction—sadness, depth, humor, detestable people, wonderful people (sometimes the same person, in fact). Phoebe, an adjunct professor of literature, finds the weight of loneliness too much to bear. Infertility, a divorce, the loss of a friendship and t…
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