Helen and Holly Hit the Books
High brow reading for your low brow life!
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Our Latest Reads…
Tidbit- February/March 2026
Here’s what we are digging these days…Chang and Eng! Helen says: My husband’s aunt and uncle just returned from a day trip to Mt. Airy, NC. I am soooooo jealous that they got to experience the brand new(ish) Siamese Twins Museum. Did you know that the world famous conjoined twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, put…
Aftertaste
by: Daria Lavelle Goodreads Synopsis: What if you could have one last meal with someone you’ve loved, someone you’ve lost? Combining the magic of Under the Whispering Door with the high-stakes culinary world of Sweetbitter, Aftertaste is an epic love story, a dark comedy, and a synesthetic adventure through food and grief. Konstantin Duhovny is a haunted man. His father…
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
by: Kiran Desai Goodreads Synopsis: The spellbinding story of two young people whose fates will intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity Behind every love story are the myriad stories of two families. In the snowy mountains of Vermont, Sonia is lonely. A college…
Raising Hare: A Memoir
by: Chloe Dalton Goodreads Synopsis: A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare. Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your…
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
by: Belle Burden Goodreads Synopsis: It was a great love story, one for the ages. The speed of our beginning and the speed of our ending felt like matching bookends. They both came out of nowhere. He wanted it, he wanted me. And then he didn’t. In March 2020, Belle Burden was safe and secure…
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