Celebrating a love of all things reading and writing
"I knew I was keeping it together by only the thinnest of threads, but that was better than not keeping it together at all." Paige Shelton, Thin Ice Goodreads Synopsis: Beth Rivers is on the run - she's doing the only thing she could think of to keep herself safe. Known to the world as... Continue Reading →
“This was just a season, and there's beauty in all seasons. Even if you are looking forward to the next one.” Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist Goodreads Synopsis: Two years after losing her fiancé, Sloan Monroe still can't seem to get her life back on track. But one trouble-making pup with a "take me... Continue Reading →
"Imagine if all men took women seriously. Education would change. The workforce would revolutionize.." — Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry Goodreads Synopsis: 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... Continue Reading →
"Sometimes what you want is given to you in a way that is so very different from how you had pictured getting it." — Susan Meissner, The Last Year of the War Goodreads Synopsis Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a... Continue Reading →
Life can be generous. It can heal the heart and whisper that it’s always possible to start again, never too late to make a difference. It asserts that there are many, many things worth living for. And one of those things—one of the most unexpectedly joyful things of all—is penguins.-Hazel Prior, How the Penguins Saved... Continue Reading →
Words matter, in fact. They're not pointless, as you've suggested. If they were pointless, then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history. If they were just words, we wouldn't write songs or listen to them. We wouldn't beg to be read to as kids. If they were just words, then stories wouldn't have... Continue Reading →
My favorite book of the month post was about Book Lovers. But the choice was so tough that I had to add a second post with honorable mentions. Daughter of the Moon Goddess is a wonderful fantasy novel based on Chinese folklore. Even though Spain is on my travel bucket list, I haven't read many... Continue Reading →
The ones that speak to me are those whose final pages admit there is no going back. That every good thing must end. That every bad thing does too, that everything does. That is what I’m looking for every time I flip to the back of a book, compulsively checking for proof that in a... Continue Reading →
“Libraries are like a net, there to catch those of us in danger of falling through the cracks.” Freya Sampson, The Last Chance Library Goodreads Synopsis June Jones emerges from her shell to fight for her beloved local library, and through the efforts and support of an eclectic group of library patrons, she discovers life-changing friendships... Continue Reading →
Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give. Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea Goodreads Synopsis While the Titanic and Lusitania are both well-documented disasters, the single greatest tragedy in maritime history is the little-known January 30, 1945 sinking in... Continue Reading →
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