It’s another Wednesday and time for another Want It Wednesday post where I spotlight some of the new releases for the week! ***this post contains affiliate links. The links to Amazon are affiliate links which means that if you click the link and make a purchase, then I receive a small commission.*** And now for … More Want It Wednesday – January 22, 2020
It’s the end of another year, and a new year is upon us! 2019 was a good year for me. My nephew was born, my husband and I remodeled one of our bathrooms (we’re now working on the other bathroom), and I got to travel a bit to Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and Disneyland. Throughout the … More Favorite Reads of 2019
Official Synopsis from Goodreads: Anuradha Roy weaves an evocative and deeply moving tale of a young woman making a new life for herself amid the foothills of the Himalaya. Desperate to leave a private tragedy behind, Maya abandons herself to the rhythms of the little village, where people coexist peacefully with nature. But all is … More Book Review: The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy
Official Synopsis from Goodreads: It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don’t know how to … More Book Review: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Official Synopsis from Goodreads: A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every … More Book Review: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Official Synopsis from Goodreads: Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, … More Book Review: Beloved by Toni Morrison
Here are three mini reviews for you today! *** This post contains affiliate links. The links to Amazon are affiliate links which means that if you click the link and make a purchase, then I receive a small commission. *** The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin My copy came from: Borrowed from … More Mini Review Time!
Official Synopsis from Goodreads: In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary experience unlike any other—for no one but … More Book Review: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Official Synopsis from Goodreads: The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure … More Mini Review: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Official Synopsis from Goodreads: In this riveting debut novel, See What I Have Done, Sarah Schmidt recasts one of the most fascinating murder cases of all time into an intimate story of a volatile household and a family devoid of love. On the morning of August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden calls out to her maid: … More ARC Review: See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
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