Helen says: American Dirt – Haters can hate! I loved it. The Vanishing Half – great story The Exiles – another great story! Pretty Things – page turner, suspenseful, no literary masterpiece Hamnet – terrific historical fiction Least Favorite: Luster – totally disturbing, gross and overrated! Holly says: The Yellow Bird Sings – beautifully written! […]
Sea Wife by Amity Gaige
Goodreads description: From the highly acclaimed author of Schroder, a smart, sophisticated page literary page-turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a yearlong sailing trip that upends all of their lives. Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to […]
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Goodreads description: A poignant, charming novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that […]
Upcoming Books for December 2020
Read along with us! Here’s what we will be reading for our next blog entry: Sea Wife by Amity Gaige Click here to purchase. Anxious People by Frederik Backman Click here to purchase. The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali Click here to purchase. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab Click here to […]
November 2020 Tidbit
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…🎼🎼🎼….We both have big families that eat a lot of food! Here are our favorite holiday crowd pleasers. (In case you haven’t figured it out yet, we are obsessed with food 🐷!) You can find both of these wonderful recipes in The Ministering Circle cookbook, Cape Fear – […]
Is This Anything?
by: Jerry Seinfeld Goodreads Description: The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades in comedy. Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub “Catch a Rising Star” as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved […]
Leave the World Behind
by: Rumaan Alam Goodreads Description: A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son […]
The Book of Lost Names
by: Kristin Harmel Goodreads Description: Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying […]
Upcoming Books – November 2020
Here’s what we will be reading in November. We hope you will read along with us. Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld Click here to purchase this book. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam Click here to purchase this book. The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel Click here to purchase this book.
October Vol. 2 Tidbit
What is your favorite cookbook?…Asks no one ever, thanks to google! We thought we would tell you. Helen says: For those of you that don’t know me, I have a side-hustle catering business with my friends (Betsy and Lisa – shout out!). One would think that I would be creating gourmet masterpieces for my family […]