by: Emily Henry Goodreads description: Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car […]
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Such a Quiet Place
by: Megan Miranda Goodreads description: Hollow’s Edge used to be a quiet place. A private and idyllic neighborhood where neighbors dropped in on neighbors, celebrated graduation and holiday parties together, and looked out for one another. But then came the murder of Brandon and Fiona Truett. A year and a half later, Hollow’s Edge is […]
February Tidbit 2022
It is Girl Scout Cookie season! Click on the link if you want to purchase from my daughter- Just kidding! She’s too old. Have you ever wondered where the Somoa cookie went? Or why the names are different depending on what region you live in? Click on this Buzz feed article to get the 411 […]
Upcoming Books for March 2022
Read along with us. We chose some well recommended options for your Spring Break. Enjoy! click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. And if we have time…we might be overzealous! Click here to purchase.
Crossroads
by: Jonathan Franzen Goodreads description: It’s December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless–unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, […]
The Lincoln Highway
By: Amor Towles Goodreads description: In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett’s intention is to pick […]
These Precious Days
By: Ann Patchett Goodreads description: “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and […]
Upcoming Books for February 2022
We decided to pick and plunder from the stacks of unread books by our beds. Last month was an investment of time in the reading of some beautiful, very special, and heavy (in more ways than one) books, and well worth it. This month will be a crap shoot, but read along with us! Like […]
January 2022 Tidbit
January is soup season! Here are our favorites. Helen says: Mine is definitely the Barefoot Contessa’s Italian Wedding Soup. I am obsessed. It is time consuming, but worth it. I think the hint of dill is what makes it so delicious. For the meatballs: ¾ pound ground chicken ½ pound chicken sausage, casings removed 2/3 […]
The Tannery – Event in Wilmington
Meet Author Michael A. Almond who will be discussing his new book The Tannery. About this event The Tannery is historical fiction at its best, a murder mystery and legal thriller whose twists and turns will hold readers’ attention to the final page. Meticulously researched, this page-turning debut novel transports readers to another time and […]
Helen and Holly Hit the Books 