Tag: Books
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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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Comfort and Joy
Kristin Hannah, 2005 Joy Candellaro has always loved Christmas. Until this one. She is recently divorced and her sister, with whom she was always close, has further broken her heart. Without these two relationships, life seems to have no point. Impulsively, Joy buys a ticket and boards a plane bound for the Northwest. Things do…
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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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A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle, 1991 In this nonfiction book, Peter Mayle and his wife realize their dream of moving to the south of France. They move into a 200 year old stone farmhouse in the Luberon, and it needs a lot of fixing and changing. This book goes through the entire year from January to December and…
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Why Everyone Needs a Book Club and a Review
And last but not least, you get to read books like Will the Circle Be Unbroken? (which is the whole point of this post). I have been reading the blog called Sean of the South for quite a few months. He has a blog post every single day and the more posts I read, the more I became interested…
So She Reads 