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Book Review: The Night We Lost Him By Laura Dave
This title is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, or audiobook formats. It’s also available at your local library through the Libby App. The audiobook, published September 17, 2024, is narrated by Julia Whelan. Publishers describe the book as a combination of soulful suspense and evocative family drama, labeling it a thriller and a… Continue reading
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Book Review: The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
In this debut novel, Guillory starts strong with an original meet-cute scene when the main characters, Alexa Monroe and Drew Nichols, get trapped in a broken-down elevator and share some soft cheese with crackers, engaging in witty banter and flirtatious looks. By the end of the encounter, Drew has Alexa agreeing to be his fake… Continue reading
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Book review: The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
The audiobook, also available in paperback, hardcover, or Kindle versions on Amazon or your local library, is narrated by the author herself, adding to the audiobook’s personal aspect. Based on Cassie Phillip’s Let Them and Let Me poems, Robbins turned the book into a “theory” and mass-marketed it. Every serious reader must consider whether Robbins… Continue reading
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Book Review: Hooked Never After #1 by Emily McIntinre
This is a dark reimaging of Peter Pan, in which the magic is transformed into something toxic. Readers should be warned about these triggers before reading about captivity, torture, dubious consent, sexual acts with firearms and other implements, and explicit murder scenes. Continue reading
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Book Review Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
This YA contemporary romance is a quick read due to the author’s easy writing style and beautiful voice. The main character is a Lina a young girl who lost her mother and is fulfilling her dying / living wish to visit Italy. Continue reading
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English Lit Of Course
Is it typical of the writer in me to say English Lit? Reading and writing essays on books, plays, short stories, and poems was so much fun. Continue reading
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Book Review: Where The Heart Is by Billie Letts
Billie Letts book Where the Heart Is published in 1995 is powerfully raw and emotionally compelling. We follow the journey of Novalee Nation who’s always been unlucky with the number sevens. Novalee is seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty seven pounds overweight, and traveling to Bakersfield, California from Tennessee with her boyfriend Willy Jack Pickens in… Continue reading
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