Author: Eva
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Educated and Educating {Books by Daughter and Mother}
Educated: Tara Westover, 2018 (the daughter) Educating: LaRee Westover, 2020 (the mom) Autobiography One family. Two very different viewpoints. Educated Educated is a book about Tara’s troubled childhood on into how she deals with things as an adult. She describes her life near Clifton, Idaho as traumatic and unsettling. Her father distrusted the government and…
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Libraries I Have Loved
Libraries have played a huge role in my reading life. I grew up going to our local library and as I left home, I found the local library where I was living at the time. All of these hold a special place in my heart! DeSmet, SD The Hazel L Meyer Memorial Library is the…
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Lattes
Wintertime is the perfect time to sit down with a good book and a hot drink. My favorites are lattes or cafe miels because they are so easy to make. I don’t have an espresso maker so I always just use strong coffee. Earl Grey tea, Green chai tea, Herbal chai tea, or coffee all…
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Mouth to Mouth
Antoine Wilson, 2022 Psychological Thriller This entire story is told in the first class lounge of an airport. Jeff Cook meets up with an old school acquaitance. Jeff feels compelled to tell the story of his life starting with how he rescued a drowning man years earlier. Jeff becomes obsessed with who that man was.…
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Scoundrel:
Sarah Weinman, 2022 Crime 1960s small town America. Eddy Smith (in his low twenties) seems like ‘the boy next door’. Until he doesn’t. The author sets the stage by showing you Eddy is everyone’s friend. He plays basketball with his buddys. He gives young girls rides home from school. He is loved by his young…
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Tell Me Everything
Erica Krause, 2022 Non-fiction, Personal Memoir, Crime Erica Krause does not have a memorable face, yet everyone thinks they may know her from somewhere. Complete strangers walk up to her and ask where they know her from. Fellow shoppers share secrets they have told no one else. This happened in a bookstore and a job…
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Christmas Stories Worth Reading
Eva’s Choices My first choice is called Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck. I was introduced to this book when I joined Weston’s family. It is a simple story of a young boy wanting to come up with a gift for his father. He doesn’t have much money and time is running short to…
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House of the Seven Gables (From Two Angles)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851 Hepzibah Pyncheon is so desperately poor she must open a little shop on the lower level of her ancestral home, known as the House of the Seven Gables. She refuses all help from her wealthy cousin, Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon. About the same time, Hepzibah’s brother, Clifford comes home after serving a thirty-year…
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Books for Your Fall TBR
For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.-Katarina Bivald, in The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend Are we telling you that you have to read these books? Do you…
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The Yorkshire Shepherdess
Amanda Owen, 2014 The Yorkshire Shepherdess is a one of the best books I have read in a long time. It is a simple story about family and farm. It reminded me that the mundane every day things we encounter can be made interesting if we keep the right perspective. Life doesn’t need to be…