Goodreads description: From the highly acclaimed author of Schroder, a smart, sophisticated page literary page-turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a yearlong sailing trip that upends all of their lives. Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to […]
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Upcoming Books for December 2020
Read along with us! Here’s what we will be reading for our next blog entry: Sea Wife by Amity Gaige Click here to purchase. Anxious People by Frederik Backman Click here to purchase. The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali Click here to purchase. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab Click here to […]
November 2020 Tidbit
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…đźđźđź….We both have big families that eat a lot of food! Here are our favorite holiday crowd pleasers. (In case you haven’t figured it out yet, we are obsessed with food đˇ!) You can find both of these wonderful recipes in The Ministering Circle cookbook, Cape Fear – […]
Is This Anything?
by: Jerry Seinfeld Goodreads Description: The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades in comedy. Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub âCatch a Rising Starâ as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved […]
Leave the World Behind
by: Rumaan Alam Goodreads Description: A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son […]
The Book of Lost Names
by: Kristin Harmel Goodreads Description: Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; itâs an image of a book she hasnât seen in sixty-five yearsâa book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying […]
Upcoming Books – November 2020
Here’s what we will be reading in November. We hope you will read along with us. Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld Click here to purchase this book. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam Click here to purchase this book. The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel Click here to purchase this book.
October Vol. 2 Tidbit
What is your favorite cookbook?…Asks no one ever, thanks to google! We thought we would tell you. Helen says: For those of you that don’t know me, I have a side-hustle catering business with my friends (Betsy and Lisa – shout out!). One would think that I would be creating gourmet masterpieces for my family […]
The Exiles
by: Christina Baker Kline Good Reads Description: The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant novel that captures the hardship, oppression, opportunity and hope of a trio of womenâs lives in nineteenth-century Australia. Seduced by her employerâs son, Evangeline, a naĂŻve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when […]
The End of October
by Lawrence Wright Good Reads Description: In this riveting medical thriller–from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author–Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are […]
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