Sometimes form and style come together beautifully and this is truly the case when listening to the audio version of Daisy Jones & the Six. Taylor Jenkins Reid is doing very well for herself lately and many of her books are hugely popular. Several years ago, I read the first couple of chapters of Jenkins… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
We’ve had both some wonderful spring weather and some heavy rain and cold. I haven’t had much time to spend in the garden yet but the girls have been playing in our yard a little more now. We celebrated Easter (and my dad’s birthday) with my extended family and had a lovely weekend together. And… Continue reading 2023 Highlights: April
The Memory of Animals - Claire Fuller (Tin House Books, 2023) I received an Advanced e-copy of this book thanks to the publisher and NetGalley. All opinions are my own. Publication date is June 6, 2023. As the world is ravaged by a deadly pandemic, Neffy has volunteered as a patient for a vaccine trial.… Continue reading Book Review: The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller
Through a wide variety of voices, Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War, focusing on the many women who were involved. We hear from Penelope, Clytemnestra, Aphrodite, and even the muse Calliope. Much of what we see is what takes place after the fall of Troy - there is a focus on the… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Anton and Cecil are close brothers, always watching out for each other, but they are as different as can be. Anton loves music and late nights. He's small and doesn't care much for hunting. Cecil is big and adventurous, longing to see new things, always up for something new. Oh, and they're cats. I picked… Continue reading Reading with Pearl & Rose: Cats at Sea by Lisa Martin and Valerie Martin
I do not want ever to be indifferent to the joys and beauties of this life. For through these, as through pain, we are enabled to see purpose in randomness, pattern in chaos. We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love. - Madeleine… Continue reading “Always, everywhere, in the deepest depths…the highest heights”
The four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia - flee the Dominican Republic for New York City after their father is involved in an attempted coup. In the Dominican, they were part of a broad, wealthy, and extended family, abounding in cousins and aunts and uncles, their lives looped and overlapping. In America… Continue reading Book Review: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Memphis - Tara M. Stringfellow (The Dial Press, 2022) In 1995, Joan, her mother Miriam, and her younger sister Mya flee her father's violent temper and return to their family home in Memphis. They move back into the house that Miriam's father built, the house she grew up, and where Joan's aunt August still lives.… Continue reading Book Review: Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
READ: We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky - Emma Hooper (Penguin, 2022) How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Julia Alvarez (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991) A Thousand Ships - Natalie Haynes (Harper Audio, 2021) The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff (Ballantine Books, 2023) La Guerre, Yes Sir! - Roch Carrier… Continue reading What I Read – March 2023
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