Before I Go To Sleep
This book was very compelling and difficult to put down once I started it.
The premise itself is interesting - the narrator is a woman who has lost her memory due to an accident, and while she can form new memories throughout the day, she can not retain them to the [...]
Have you ever read a book and been so absorbed in the language, style, and place of it, you found yourself thinking in the same style? That happened to me with The Weird Sisters. And I thoroughly enjoyed it.
This book had a very unique narrative voice. It was told from the combined perspective of 3 [...]
This book had an odd sort of style, which once I got into the flow of I didn’t want to get out (much like going swimming - it feels cold and uncomfortable as you ease, or plunge, your way into the water, but then your body adjusts and you want to stay submerged forever).
So Much [...]
I have not read any of this author’s other books, but received an advanced copy of The Art of Saying Goodbye at a conference and decided to give it a try. This is a story of a community touched by sadness, as one of their own faces cancer and causes each of them to reflect [...]
I seem to be on a roll of books that feature people making connections through literature and reading. I had wanted to read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for two years, having heard so many wonderful reviews of it, yet I feared I may have let it get too built-up in my [...]
This time of year is so exciting! The changing weather and all the fantastic new releases create an excited hum in the air you can almost feel. Or is that just me? Anyways, here are a few of the newest releases to grace our library:
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett. If you were impressed by [...]
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Ape House by Gruen - I, and several others I know, loved Gruen’s Water for Elephants. Here, she returns to the human-animal connection in a tale of great apes and the people who share their lives in a language lab. The lab gets bombed, and the apes are sold off while the scientist who is [...]
MOCKING JAY by Suzanne Collins - The big news around here today is the release of the final book in Collins’s amazing Hunger Games trilogy! This series is gripping, leads to compulsive reading, and causes angst when each book is done and one must wait for the next to come out. Though classified as a [...]
Wow, where has the time gone?! This summer has been incredibly busy! I know this is my first post in about a month, and I apologize for the lapse. But here’s some great new titles from this week and last to get us back into the swing of things (click on an image for more [...]
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