The BEA is just around the corner, and although I won’t be there in person, my email box has been filling up with book buzz centered around this extraordinary event. I love debut fiction and two books which will be featured prominently at the BEA have caught my attention. People in the Trees by Hanya [...]
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The Burgess Boys – Book Review
Haweeya said, “In America, it is about the individual. Self-realization. Go to the grocery store, the doctor’s office, open any magazine, and it is self, self, self. But in my culture it is about community and family.” – from The Burgess Boys – The Burgess family has had its struggles. Jim, Bob and Susan lost [...]
Where’d You Go, Bernadette – Book Review
Mom disappears into thin air two days before Christmas without telling me? Of course it’s complicated. Just because it’s complicated, just because you think you can’t ever know everything about another person, it doesn’t mean you can’t try. It doesn’t mean I can’t try. – from Where’d You Go, Bernadette – Fifteen year old Bee [...]
In The Garden of Stone – Book Review and Giveaway
“When you got something, someone always wants it,” he said. “You don’t show off what you got, not even your happiness. If you are happy, you go into your room and lock the door. You jump up and down where nobody gonna see your happiness. If you hide all your shiny things, ain’t nobody gonna [...]
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena – Book Review and Giveaway
At the kitchen table she examined the glass of ice. Each cube was rounded by room temperature, dissolving in its own remains, and belatedly she understood that this was how a loved one disappeared. Despite the shock of walking into an empty flat, the absence isn’t immediate, more a fade from the present tense you [...]
And The Mountains Echoed – Book Review
But something else too at the edge of it all, at the rim of her vision – and this is what draws her most – an elusive shadow. A figure. At once soft and hard. The softness of a hand holding hers. The hardness of knees where she’d once rested her cheek. She searches for [...]
The Round House – Book Review
My father had become convinced that somewhere within his bench briefs, memos, summaries, and decisions lay the identity of the man whose act had nearly severed my mother’s spirit from her body. With all that we did, we were trying to coax the soul back into her. But I could feel it tug away from [...]
24 Hour Read-A-Thon: Update Hours 7 & 8
How I am feeling at this point in the Event: A bit sleepy during the last part of these two hours. I got up and walked around the yard and ate some lunch, but I think I’m going to have to exercise soon to shrug off the lethargy. What I am currently reading: Still reading [...]
All You Could Ask For – Book Review
What makes life worth living is not anything that might happen. It is what is happening right now. – from All You Could Ask For – Brooke is living the “perfect” life. She has twins and an amazing husband who loves her. She works hard to keep her marriage exciting – including hiring a photographer [...]
The Movement of Stars – Book Review
Hannah watched him move, impressed by the ease with which he unfurled his long legs and arms. He propped himself up on one elbow and kicked off his boots, unencumbered by skirts or propriety. She could see now how it was on his boat, how his grace would be ballast amid the chaos of the [...]
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