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This is the follow-up to Beartown. I would suggest reading Beartown FIRST if you haven't read that before reading this one. This is about how a town can make hockey it's lifeblood. I felt like I could almost be living in this town. The excitement and tense feelings just jump right off the page. Have… Continue reading Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for adults, the story of one Dominican-American family told through the voices of its women as they await a gathering that will forever change their lives. Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she… Continue reading Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
This was a heartfelt story about a small town hero and is for anyone who has any interest in baseball. In this story, Winston Browne is a small town sheriff with a big heart. This takes place in the 50's in Florida. I thought the small town of Moab, FL with it's population of 912… Continue reading The Incredible Winston Brown by Sean Dietrich
“It doesn't take long to persuade each other to stop seeing a person as a person. And when enough people are quiet for long enough, a handful of voices can give the impression that everyone is screaming.” People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground… Continue reading Beartown by Fredrik Backman
This was a very character driven story with a lot of heart. The characters in this one are so real and so complicated that I wanted to get to know them better. The group of 6 in The Celebrants become close friends in college after switching colleges and being the newbies, but not freshman. Alec,… Continue reading The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
When a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during World War II are revealed. The Secret Book of Flora Lea had a premise that intrigued me right away. It contains bookstores, secrets, and magical realism. All… Continue reading The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
“I fooled myself into believing I was after closure, when all I really wanted was never to let go. Because, as Alison’s scar was her most sacred vanity, her death was mine." Claire is only seven years old when her college sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation.. Several days later,… Continue reading Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin
“Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone.” At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her… Continue reading Normal People by Sally Rooney
“Maybe that was closer to the truth--we weren't captor and captive, but two animals in different compartments of the same cage. Hers was just slightly larger.” Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful… Continue reading The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
The Sentence asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich is a raw, poetic novel told about a book store that is haunted during the pandemic. This one is highly character driven, which I don't normally go for but I did enjoy.… Continue reading The Sentence by Louise Erdrich