by: Rachel Yoder Goodreads description: One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else… At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. She had imagined – what was it she had imagined? Her husband, always travelling for […]
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by: Gabrielle Zevin Goodreads description: On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and […]
Tidbit- January 2023
New Year’s resolutions? We both agree that “I want to lose 10 lbs” is trite. Let’s do something positive that adds to our lives instead of creating undue stress and pressure. Helen says: Lifelong learner here! I want to reacquaint myself with Greek Mythology (Hence The Song of Achilles for next month) and I am […]
Upcoming Books- February 2023
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Anything is Possible
By: Elizabeth Strout Goodreads description: Short story collection Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: one trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her […]
56 Days
By: Catherine Ryan Howard Goodreads description: No one knew they’d moved in together. Now one of them is dead. Could this be the perfect murder? 56 DAYS AGOCiara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin the same week Covid-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGOWhen lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests […]
Lessons in Chemistry
by: Bonnie Garmus Goodreads description: Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except […]
Remarkably Bright Creatures
By: Shelby Van Pelt Goodreads description: After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. […]
Tidbit- Our top 5 list for 2022!
Helen says: #1 A masterpiece! #2 Dysfunction junction. #3 All of his books are so different and equally great. #4 You should probably read The Glass Hotel first…This is a follow up. It blew my mind! #5 Wonderful historical fiction. WORST/ MOST DISTURBING BOOK I READ THIS YEAR: I love all of her other books- […]
Upcoming Books for January 2023
We chose 6 books to read over the next two months- wish us luck! Read along with us in the New Year. They are: Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase.