"A detective story with no detective" says the tagline on this book, and it's a pretty good description. Set in Edinburgh in 2011, Margaret is a middle aged woman whose life has imploded in London, so she flees to her mothers in Scotland. It's one of the coldest Winters on record, and there are a …
When Sherri moves to town with her 10 year old daughter Katie, she manages to upset the tight knit and cliquey group of mothers by befriending the grieving widow Rebecca, who has a daughter the same age, and a teenage daughter Alexa. Alexa is at somewhat of a loose end over the Summer, and babysits …
Jia Jia has been married for 4 years, in a relationship based on practical things like making a family rather than love. When her husband announces that they will go on a trip, Jia Jia goes to pack, only to walk into the bathroom to find her husband dead in the bath tub. He has …
I read this in one sitting. The Silence has a strong opening chapter. We meet Isla, a woman struggling with alcoholism living in London in the late 90's, when she gets a call from her father in Sydney, Australia, asking her to come home. He's being investigated for the murder of a woman who lived …
Emily, a pretty and young film assistant, is missing. The police have turned up Mia's house to ask her husband Roy what he knows about this girl, since he was the last one to see her alive. The story that follows is Roy's recollection of events against Mia's, bit both of them might not be …
Bell is a nanny in Stockholm who takes on too much from the family she works for. Their lives are all disrupted forever when she answers the phone one day to hear am odd message. Apparently, Hanna has a husband who has been in a coma for 7 years, and he just woke up. To …
Can you tell I love this box? I love this subscription box. Once Upon A Book Club Box is a monthly subscription box with a difference. Each month you get a book, and a lovely framed quote print. Then, as you read the book, on certain pages there are prompts to open gifts included in …
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The American Library in Paris has always been a sanctuary for Odile Souchet, so when she grows up, she applies for a job there. But it's 1939, and things are about to change for everyone in France and all over the world. Odile and her co-workers try to keep the library open as the Germans …
Continue reading The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
The Only Good Indians is the story of four indigenous men who went on an illegal elk hunt on their reservation when they were teens and set off a chain of events that stayed with them for ten years. Now, they have all gone in different directions, some staying, some moving away, some settling, some …
Continue reading The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
When Tricia reached out to me about her book, she came across as warm, smart and funny. I felt like I knew her, immediately, somehow. (Probably because she loves red lipstick like I do!) I said, "OK, what's this book?" She said "It's called 'I'm Sick Of This Shit'". I thought that was hilarious. I …
Continue reading Spring Clean Your Life: I’m Sick Of This Shit by Tricia Sitemere.
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