Tag: book reviews
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Seven Days in June with Eva and Shane
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams – A Five-Star Book Review “I wish you the most brilliant, weird, and wonderful things, every day of the world.” Tia Williams, Seven Days in June (pg. 113) This might be one of my all-time favorite book quotations now, and it encapsulates everything I feel about Seven Days…
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You Have Entered Beartown
Beartown by Fredrik Backman – A Five-Star Book Review Beartown is a mainstay in book club conversations and on Bookstagram, with so many reviews raving about the power of this book by Swedish author Fredrik Backman. It took me until 2023 to understand why. I had trepidations about reading this book when I first heard…
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Five Stars for Someday, Maybe
Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli – A Five-Star Book Review What would you do if you lost the person closest to you? And how would your response be if that person chose to leave by suicide? That’s what Eve, the protagonist of Someday, Maybe, must experience when she finds her husband, Quentin, in a pool…
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Get Home Before Dark
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager Maggie Holt doesn’t want to go home again. In fact, she desperately wants to avoid revisiting the rambling house that she and her parents fled years ago. But, at the reading of her dad’s will, Maggie learns that not only did Ewan never sell that mansion, but now it’s…
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In the Existence of Mental Illness
Book Review The Existence of Amy by Lana Grace Riva Amy is existing. She goes to work, makes excuses to avoid happy hours, and moves through life while knowing that simple existence is not right. She has something, a voice, a compulsion, a suffocating threat to any semblance of the life she used to have.…
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