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Book Review: GREENLIGHTS (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) by Matthew McConaughey Genre: Memoir Memoir by Matthew McConaughey. Well, hmmmm, what to say about Matthew’s memoir… First of all, I’m not a mega-fan or anything but gave it a listen anyway because so many were raving about it. One of my first thoughts while listening (and I’d highly recommend listening … Read more
Book Review: I WILL SEND RAIN (⭐⭐⭐⭐) by Rae Meadows Genre: Historical Fiction Samuel, a farmer, and his family (wife Annie, teen daughter Birdie, and 8 year old son Fred) struggle to eek out an existence during the Great American Dust Bowl tragedy of the 1920s. Will their family survive this era intact? What toll … Read more
TGIF: What are you reading this weekend? I’m reading THE NATURE OF FRAGILE THINGS by Susan Meissner (out 2/2) and listening to THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES, by Suzanne Collins! Thank you to @graphicsbysharlene and @soozmeissner for a copy of Things won in a giveaway!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 When Charlie sees a man who is the spitting image of her husband Oliver on a dating app, her heart stops. Her first desperate instinct is to tell herself she must be mistaken – after all, she only caught a glimpse from a distance as her friends laughingly swiped through the men on offer. … Read more
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Caroline Stark’s beach house was supposed to be her crowning achievement: a lavish, expensive space to showcase what she thought was her perfect family. But after a very public fight with her husband, she realizes things may not be as perfect as they seem: her husband is lying to her, the money is disappearing, … Read more
Book Review: WHAT’S WORTH KEEPING (⭐⭐⭐⭐) by @kayamclaren Genre: Fiction After Amy’s recent battle with breast cancer, her family of three is left dealing with his/her own set of demons. Amy is grappling with life after cancer (“Something along the lines of whether she had enough courage to live the rest of her life with … Read more
Book Review: MEET ME IN BOMBAY (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) by @jennyashcroftauthor Genre: Historical Romance At a New Year’s Eve party in 1913, Maddy’s entire life changes as soon as she locks eyes with the dashing Luke Deveraux. “It was a space of moments. But nothing was ever the same again, after that.” Set in Bombay, India, the … Read more
⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 For Lizzie Riley, switching her eight-year-old son Tom to the local academy school marks a fresh start, post-divorce. With its excellent reputation and outstanding results, Lizzie knows it’ll be a safe space away from home. But there’s something strange happening at school. Parents are forbidden from entering the grounds and inside, there are bars … Read more
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Low Morrison is not your average teen. You could blame her hippie parents or her looming height or her dreary, isolated hometown on an island in the Pacific Northwest. But whatever the reason, Low just doesn’t fit in—and neither does Freya, an ethereal beauty and once-famous social media influencer who now owns the local … Read more
⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Getting pregnant as a teenager was never part of Kate’s plan, but when it happens she’s determined to do right by her daughter, showing her the love she never had as a child. Life as a single mother is hard, sometimes impossible, but it only brings Kate and Becky closer together. By the time … Read more