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.

Finished reading: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 📚

3/5, An overarching epic that jumps between four different stories in four different times and slowly reveals the connections over time and space.

Finished reading: North Woods by Daniel Mason 📚

3/5, An enticing tale of a place and the people that come and go through it over the ages.

Finished reading: Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 📚

4/5, The story of a man surviving and suffering in the American West during the early 20th century.

Finished reading: Nala’s World by Dean Nicholson 📚

3/5. A young man with a plan to bicycle around the world with a friend has his plans changed and views opened when he spots an abandoned kitten in the mountains of Bosnia.

Finished reading: Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell 📚

3/5, The story of a poor young girl forced to save her home by finding her father who skipped out on a bail bond and put the family’s home in hock.

Finished reading: Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham 📚

4/5, A detailed narrative of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl reactor and the Soviet response.

Finished reading: Whalefall by Daniel Kraus 📚

3/5, A young man goes on a dangerous dive to search for his father’s remains and a hope of closure. When he encounters a sperm whale and is sucked into an epic adventure, he learns much more about life than expected.

Finished reading: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway 📚

3/5, A private detective is called in to investigate the murder of a genetically enhanced Titan and discovers a strange, mythic story in the process to help solve the case.

Finished reading: Wellness by Nathan Hill 📚

4/5, A story of a marriage over time and how all the pieces of our lives influence the parts that bring us together in the end.

Finished reading: A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik 📚

3/5, The story of an outcast girl dealing with some immense wizardly powers in a dangerous school full of monsters and other students with powerful families and unfair advantages in life.

Finished reading: The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚

3/5, A sweeping story, following many people through their journey of understanding where we, as people, fit within the natural world.

Finished reading: Straight on Till Morning: The Life of Beryl Markham by Mary S. Lovell 📚

3/5, A biography of Beryl Markham, made famous by her flying exploits in the 1930s, the book covers her moves around the world and her love of training horses.

Finished reading: Catch the Sparrow by Rachel Rear 📚

3/5, The dramatic tale of a murder from 20 years ago investigated by her stepsister who had never met the victim.

Finished reading: The Wager by David Grann 📚

3/5, A dramatic story of a shipwreck, a mutiny, and of survival on the ship “The Wager” in the 1700’s.

Finished reading: Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks 📚

3/5, Through the story of a boy discovering chemistry and physics from his uncles, we are walked through the history of the atom and the discoveries that led to our understanding of the building blocks of nature.

Finished reading: Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend 📚

3/5, A detailed history of the Aztecs encompassing the terrors of the Spanish conquest of their homelands.

Finished reading: Matrix by Lauren Groff 📚

3/5, The story of a powerful woman born in a time where women had no say and how she found success through isolation.

Finished reading: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler 📚

4/5, Set in a time when sophisticated AI exists to benefit human kind, the story explores the outcomes of discovering a new, highly evolved species while investigating the struggles of living in a world dominated by “intelligent” machines.

Cactus

Page

Finished reading: Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice 📚

4/5, A tragic story of a remote native village impacted by unknown worldwide events and how their reliance on the modern world had changed their culture.

Finished reading: A World of Secrets by James Maxwell 📚

3/5, The second book in the firewall series where the group seeks to find the path to the other side of the firewall and discover much more than that.

Magic?

Sky

Train

Crispy

prevention

well-being

Finished reading: An Immense World by Ed Yong 📚

3/5, A grand overview of the senses of the natural world, sharing the realization that there is much we can’t observe.

Windy

serene

Foliage

card

Flowers

Finished reading: A Girl from Nowhere by James Maxwell 📚

3/5, A young boy, raised by his “aunt” and an orphaned girl meet in the heat of the wasteland and start a journey to find the white city.

Finished reading: The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland 📚

4/5, The gripping and tragic story of a teenager’s escape from certain death in Auschwitz’s and how that survival shaped the rest of his life.

Finished reading: The Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell 📚

3/5, A look into the implications of climate change and the impact on our world as temperatures rise.

Finished reading: Jinx by Matt Gemmell 📚

3/5, The third book in the KESTREL series following the team of elite EU agents and their battle with a new, highly technical foe.

Finished reading: Trust by Hernan Diaz 📚

3/5, Several stories interwoven telling the story around the market crash of 1929.

Finished reading: Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner 📚

4/5, The story of a middle-aged couple divorcing and delving into the growth and struggles of us all as we age.

Finished reading: Say Her Name by Dreda Say Mitchell 📚

3/5, A crime thriller about the disappearance of four young black women in 1994.

Finished reading: Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚 3/5, A young princess, ignored by her royal family, awakens a sorcerer from her family’s history to help her conquer a demon that is destroying neighboring lands.