It's time for another monthly reading wrap-up. And the impending end to summer. The good news is that there are SO MANY authors coming out with new books this fall that the reading should be stellar. Stay tuned! There needs to be a better word than messy to describe Sisters of a Halved Heart and I don’t mean that in a pejorative way, but almost as a ... Read More...
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
The sprawling Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil spans three centuries and in doing so introduces and follows three young women, each completely different, but ultimately bound to each other whether they want to be or not. Maria is a young woman in Spain in the 16th century about to be married off to a man she knows nothing about. She hopes marriage will bring her a life of ... Read More...
The Children by Melissa Albert
In her new novel, The Children author Melissa Albert goes with the familiar theme of life as the child of a celebrity and pushes it even harder. Edith is a writer who gained her fame and fortune by writing a series of children’s fantasy books, using her own children’s names and even their likenesses. Ennis and Guin had no escape from the adulation and curiosity she created ... Read More...
The Top of the World by Ethan Joella
When Maggie’s older brother, Chip disappears for the summer after the end of his senior year in high school it’s a big deal. Because it’s probably the last summer he’ll ever have and she and her parents are left alone and wondering if they’ll ever see him again. They do, but he never says anything about his time away. A year later Maggie seeks some kind of closure around his ... Read More...
A Year of Marvelous Ways
Marvelous Ways is a 90-year-old woman living in a camper in Cornwall, England. It’s 1947 and what was once a vibrant small town has dwindled to closed up shops and a few stray residents. And yet, Marvelous sits at the crossroads near her home every day, waiting. For what or for whom she doesn’t know, only that she must wait. This singular woman and her monastic life will come ... Read More...
City of Widows
Nadia Hashimi’s novel, City of Widows is set in Kabul in 2021 as America is in the final stages of withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. Despite all the promises made by the Taliban to honor the changes made in the country they are already targeting women for harassment and are arresting and/or killing anyone who aided the Afghan government against them. For two strangers, ... Read More...
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