Finished reading: The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena 📚
3/5, A loving couple seem to have it all; a great house, a self-made business, and a new baby. The truth comes out when their daughter is kidnapped and the secrets come out.
Finished reading: The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena 📚
3/5, A loving couple seem to have it all; a great house, a self-made business, and a new baby. The truth comes out when their daughter is kidnapped and the secrets come out.
Finished reading: Hitman by Howie Carr 📚
3/5, The detailed accounting of Johnny Martorano and his life as a Boston gangster.
Finished reading: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 📚
4/5, A rescued octopus at a small aquarium in the Pacific Northwest becomes the linchpin to a family seeking connections.
Finished reading: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray 📚
4/5, The story of a family coming apart at the seams, possibly due to the ominous start of the family or maybe the repercussions of the small town world they are part of, either way they all learn to cope with their challenges in different ways.
Finished reading: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 📚
4/5, A young man loses his job and takes a position as a Clark at an unusual 24-hour bookstore, an epic mystery awaits him.
Finished reading: Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow 📚
4/5, A teenager in rural Vermont facing tragedy and hardship uses his practical resourcefulness to survive.
Finished reading: The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons 📚
3/5, The story continue to follow the pilgrims and the ultimate discovery of who the fight is actually against.
Finished reading: Hyperion by Dan Simmons 📚
3/5, A twisting tale of seven pilgrims heading to a remote world in the distant future to possibly prevent a galactic war. They share their stories on the journey and reveal a frightening history.
Finished reading: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer 📚
4/5, The war has just ended in England and a newly famous writer is looking for a new book topic when she receives a letter from the Channel Islands. The letter leads her to story and a life adventure.
Finished reading: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green 📚
5/5, A teenager, with acute anxiety and OCD, embarks on a quest to solve the disappearance of an old friend’s billionaire Dad. Her own struggles lead her down a different path as she gets distracted by her own life.
Finished reading: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride 📚
4/5, A skeleton found at the bottom of an old well leads to a story about the struggles of a community growing amid immigration and migration in the early 20th century.
Finished reading: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 📚
4/5, A time machine from the future allows the current-day British government bring historical figures to the present day. But what happens when the women they select to be the “bridge” between the past and the present falls in love?
Finished reading: Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender 📚
3/5, A look into Steve Job’s evolution as a leader through the viewpoint of a journalist who covered him for his entire professional career.
Finished reading: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz 📚
2/5, A text outlining four truths to help people realize happiness based on the Toltec traditions.
Finished reading: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 📚
4/5, A winding tail of a young boy who tragically loses his mother to a terrorist attack at the Met and the painting that shapes the rest of his challenging life.
Finished reading: Bewilderment: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚
4/5, A moving tale of an astrobiologist who develops models about the potential for life o other planets trying to raise his 9-year old autistic son after his wife is killed in an accident. His desire to keep his son off psychoactive drugs leads them into an astounding journey of neurofeedback training.
Finished reading: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie 📚
3/5, A space ship’s AI, used to control thousands of soldiers and the activities of a large spacecraft, through an act of terror ends up controlling a single human body. That AI is determined to use its body to seek revenge.
Finished reading: The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang 📚
2/5, In 1937, Japan marched into Nanking, the capital of China and over the next six weeks slaughtered the civilian population of the city. This outlines the relatively untold story of the devastation.
Finished reading: Polostan by Neal Stephenson 📚
4/5, An intriguing first book of a series that tells an epic tale a young Russian/American girl’s journey to become an integral part of a pre-atomic Soviet Union, all while setting the scene for the potential for stories ahead.
Finished reading: The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley 📚
3/5, A small group of 30-somethings who went to school together, continue their tradition of spending New Year’s Eve together in a remote portion of the Scottish Highlands. By the turn of the new year one of them is dead and many stunning secrets revealed.
Finished reading: The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi 📚
3/5, Based in the not too distant future, when water has become the most important commodity, three people’s lives collide over the water rights of the Colorado River.
Finished reading: Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys 📚
3/5, The stories of four refugees of WWII and their trek to the coast with the promise of escaping the war, ending with their dramatic departure over the Baltic.
Finished reading: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn 📚
4/5, A disturbing story where an aspiring journalist returns to her hometown to investigate a little girl’s murder. Her return requires her to face her past and leads her down a dark path to the murderer.
Finished reading: The Fraud by Zadie Smith 📚
3/5, A housekeeper, related by marriage to a life-long semi-successful novelist, shares the story around a trial that gripped Britain in the 1870’s. An exploration of the times and the meaning of truth.
Finished reading: The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier 📚
4/5, An intriguing tale exploring the all too human concept of “what might have been.” A look into many lives when a duplicate airplane shows up three months after initially landing and the introspection it causes.