by: Emily Franklin Goodreads Description: A deeply evocative novel of the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself. By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase her collection of […]
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The Princess of Las Vegas
by: Chris Bohjalian Goodreads Description: A Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game of money and murder in this twisting tale of organized crime, cryptocurrency, and family secrets on the Las Vegas strip. Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by […]
May 2024 Tidbit:
Helen says: May is a doozy for me. Have you watched the Holderness family spoof on Maycember and the end of the school year? I really identify with it. Click here to watch. Have you watched Baby Reindeer on Netflix? It is so crazy and creepy. I can’t say that I suggest it, but I […]
Upcoming Books for June 2024
Summer is upon us and we have some good books to read…. We decided to throw a classic in. Someone posted a list of 15 Must Read Books, and this one was missing from our reading history. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase.
The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith Goodreads description: It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper – and cousin by marriage – of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, […]
The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhorn Goodreads description: Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record […]
The Heiress
By: Rachel Hawkins Goodreads description: When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family’s estate high in […]
The Hunter
By: Tana French Goodreads description: It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural […]
Tidbit- April 2024
What are we digging this month? Helen says: I have been a manic reader this month! I only liked 2 out of 4 of our assigned books. I decided to read and listen to a few others. As I have already mentioned, I started The Court of Thorns and Roses series- very enjoyable and entertaining. […]
Upcoming Books for May 2024
Here’s what we are reading next. Read along with us! Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. And if we have time… Click here to purchase.
Helen and Holly Hit the Books 