June 2022 Tidbit

In addition to being Pulitzer prize winning journalists, Helen and Holly are also Master Gardeners- not! Our brown thumbs are getting some work this season. What do we like to grow you may ask? Helen says: I like to grow Zinnias every summer. I have a grave like flower bed by my front door. I […]

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

by: Kim Michele Richardson Goodreads description: In 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned 19-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry.  The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding across slippery creek beds […]

Greenwich Park

by: Katherine Faulkner Goodreads description: Helen’s idyllic life—handsome architect husband, gorgeous Victorian house, and cherished baby on the way (after years of trying)—begins to change the day she attends her first prenatal class and meets Rachel, an unpredictable single mother-to-be. Rachel doesn’t seem very maternal: she smokes, drinks, and professes little interest in parenthood. Still, […]

Nine Lives

by: Peter Swanson Goodreads description: Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet of paper. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list. They dismiss it as junk mail, a fluke – […]

Sea of Tranquility

by: Emily St. John Mandel Goodreads description: Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in […]

May/June 2022 Tidbit

We LOVE Wordle- Do you? If you are unfamiliar, click here to play this New York Times phenomenon. There are some great spinoffs of Wordle now. Here are our favorites: Helen says: I love Food- can you tell by my svelte physique? Phoodle is so much fun. Click here to play. Holly says: Try Worldle! […]

Black Cake

by: Charmaine Wilkerson Goodreads description: In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother’s death and her hidden past—a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake.  We can’t choose what we inherit. But […]

The Golden Couple

by: Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen Goodreads description: Wealthy Washington suburbanites Marissa and Matthew Bishop seem to have it all—until Marissa is unfaithful. Beneath their veneer of perfection is a relationship riven by work and a lack of intimacy. She wants to repair things for the sake of their eight-year-old son and because she loves […]