by: John Kenney Goodreads synopsis: The Office meets Six Feet Under meets About a Boy in this coming-of-middle-age tale about having a second chance to write your life’s story. Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a “far more interesting” man. Yes, he goes on a particularly awful blind […]
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When Cranes Fly South
By: Lisa Rizden Goodreads synopsis: Bo is running out of time. Yet time is one of the few things he’s got left. These days, his quiet existence is broken up only by daily visits from his home care team. Fortunately, he still has his beloved elkhound Sixten to keep him company … though now his […]
The Tenant
by: Freida McFadden Goodreads description: There’s no place like home… Blake Porter is riding high, until he’s not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone that he shares with his fiancee, he’s desperate to make ends meet. Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, […]
Upcoming Books for September 2025
We are doing some serious reading this upcoming month. Wish us luck! Barbara Barbee’s suggestion! Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase.
Upcoming books for June 2025
Join us on our summer reading quest- quite the variety!! Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase.
Tidbit April 2025
Besides the obvious….what is your favorite thing about Easter? Helen says: My friend Jean and I got hooked on the Eggmazing Egg Decorator with our kids a few years ago…It is a super fun way to decorate Easter Eggs with magic markers and a battery operated egg spinner. See above photo for the finished project. […]
Upcoming Books for May 2025
May is crazy for both of us and we don’t have a lot of spare reading time. We are very “au courant” in our choices this month! All three books are getting a lot of buzz. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase.
Tidbit- February 2025
Do you know what Helen and Holly love to do when we are not reading books? WE LOVE TO PLAY TRIVIA!! Wilmingtonians, if you have not heard about legendary stand-up comic and trivia announcer MT Bottles (aka Travis), consider yourself now informed….He is all over town at a different spot each night of the week. […]
One Thousand White Women
by: Jim Fergus Goodreads description: One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial “Brides for Indians” program, launched by the administration of […]
The Sequel
by: Jean Hanff Korelitz Goodreads description: After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times bestseller The Plot comes Jean Hanff Korelitz’s equally captivating new novel: The Sequel. Anna Williams-Bonner has taken care of business—that is to say, she’s taken care of her husband, bestselling novelist Jacob Finch Bonner, and laid to rest those anonymous […]
Helen and Holly Hit the Books 