So in all honesty it’s been a while since I listened to The Mistress’s Daughter by A.M. Homes. I have discovered (and I suspected this would be true of me) that with two kids in the car it’s probably better for me to have read a book before listening to the audio. I’m [...]
Witness by Karen Hesse is told from the viewpoints of eleven different townspeople in a small town of Vermont in 1924. A town in which the Klu Klux Klan has moved in and ultimately changes everything. I adore free-verse novels and Witness is as powerful as they come. Based on true characters, there are photographs [...]
The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris is a very quiet character study novel and a fine one at that. Living a comfortable lifestyle with his devoted wife Jane and their daughter Becka, attorney Tim Farnsworth relapses into a very odd condition in which he can’t stop walking. Having battled this condition twice previously, Tim had always [...]
Imagine one moment you are driving down the road and the next moment you are standing outside of your own body watching emergency crews clean up the horrific crash you were involved in. This is how If I Stay by Gayle Forman begins. Seventeen-year-old Mia, on track for Julliard school, has no recollection of the [...]
My boys and I laid in bed the other morning and read Little Skink’s Tail by Janet Halfmann and illustrated by Laurie Allen Klein. Seriously, nothing is better than lounging in bed before getting up while reading picture books aloud. Even better that the book was within arms reach of the bed thus not even [...]
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