by: John Boyne Goodreads description: Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn’t talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn’t talk about the grim post-war years in France with […]
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The Covenant of Water
by: Abraham Verghese Goodreads description: A stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala and following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret.Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a […]
August 2023 Tidbit
Holly and Helen have been trying to beat the heat during these dog days of summer! How have you been trying to stay cool? Helen says: Have you heard of the new self-care trend called “Bed Rotting”? Gross, but funny…. It is basically lying in bed with all your devices and streaming series and reading […]
The Housemaid
By: Freida McFadden Goodreads description: “Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more […]
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Still Life
By: Sarah Winman Goodreads description: Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from […]
I Have Some Questions for You
By: Rebecca Makkai Goodreads description: A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances […]
April/May 2023 Tidbit
Helen says: Hmmm…I would have to say American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. That was probably the most disturbing book I have ever read. The movie did not do it justice! I would run for the hills and change my number on that one… Holly says: This one is a toss-up between Mexican Gothic and […]
Upcoming Books for May 2023
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Helen and Holly Hit the Books 