By: Shelby Van Pelt Goodreads description: After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. […]
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Tidbit- Our top 5 list for 2022!
Helen says: #1 A masterpiece! #2 Dysfunction junction. #3 All of his books are so different and equally great. #4 You should probably read The Glass Hotel first…This is a follow up. It blew my mind! #5 Wonderful historical fiction. WORST/ MOST DISTURBING BOOK I READ THIS YEAR: I love all of her other books- […]
Upcoming Books for January 2023
We chose 6 books to read over the next two months- wish us luck! Read along with us in the New Year. They are: Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase.
The Diamond Eye
by: Kate Quinn Goodreads description: The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her […]
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
by: Jamie Ford Goodreads description: Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the […]
The Marriage Portrait
by:Maggie O’Farrell Goodreads description: From the author of the breakout New York Times best seller Hamnet—winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award—an electrifying new novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de Medici. Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure […]
October 2022 Tidbit
We often say, “this would make a great movie” when reviewing books. What is the best book to fill adaptation in your opinion? What films were you most disappointed by? This was hard to list off the top of our heads so we asked friends that are up on “pop culture” to weigh in. This […]
November 2022 Upcoming Books
We usually try to read nonfiction in November, but we just don’t feel like it this year. It seems like a chore and there are so many good novels to be read! So welcome to no (!) nonfiction November – Just say no. Read along with us. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. […]
Horse
by: Geraldine Brooks Goodreads description: A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge […]
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post: A Novel
by: Allison Pataki Goodreads description: Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. . . . So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Growing up in the modest farmlands of Battle Creek, Michigan, Marjorie was inspired by a few simple rules: […]
Helen and Holly Hit the Books 