“As the father of your children, as a friend, as someone who shared a journey with you and as someone who loves you and cares about you. I don’t need to be married to you to be all those things. Those things are deeper than marriage. Those things are forever.” This novel follows follows Laurel… Continue reading Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
Genre: Fiction / Women
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
“I’ll love you until my heart gives out. I’ll be your man for a thousand years. Longer if I’m allowed.” “You can be as high maintenance as you want, honey. But I'm the only one who does the maintenance.” The novel follows a young, wealthy socialite, Piper Bellinger, after she is banished from Los Angeles… Continue reading It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
“I know it sounds like it was all just a terrible disaster. Of course, it does. Any situation involving four dead bodies is clearly far from ideal.” “It's very strange, looking back, how accepting children can be of the oddest scenarios.” The novel tells the stories of three characters. Libby, who was adopted and wanting… Continue reading The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
“She knew the years of isolation had altered her behavior until she was different from others, but it wasn't her fault she'd been alone. Most of what she knew, she'd learned from the wild. Nature had nurtured, tutored, and protected her when no one else would.” The story follows two timelines that slowly intertwine. The… Continue reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley
A charming, touching, heartwarming story about found family in unexpected places. This was a feel-good story that also touched on heavy topics like bullying, marriage issues, ageism, loneliness and work stress, and all with such great humor. The cast of characters is so diverse that you wouldn't expect it to work as well as it… Continue reading Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley
Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover
“Hearts don’t have bones. They can’t actually break.” “Maybe we did grow heart bones. But what if the only way of knowing you grew a heart bone is by feeling the agony caused by the break?” This novel follows Beyah. Beyah’s mission in life is to get away from Kentucky and her drug addicted mother.… Continue reading Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
“How do you explain it when you find in someone what you’ve been waiting for your whole life? Do you call it fate? It feels lazy to call it fate. It’s more like finding your way home—where home is a place you secretly hoped for, a place you imagined, but where you’d never before been.… Continue reading The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
“She glimpsed, opening up in front of her, the possibility of a quite different life from the one she currently led, a far richer (in the cultural sense), more peopled life.” “Everything is material. And comedy equals tragedy plus time. Isn’t that how it goes?” This book jumps between the characters Laura, Miriam, Carla, Theo,… Continue reading A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Mekkai
This one reads like a literary mystery. How important can podcasts be in solving cold cases? Can one person's memory of a past event really hold the key to solving a case? Can adolescent memory be trusted? What if the person who should speak up, never does? These are all questions that I thought about… Continue reading I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Mekkai
Someone Else’s Shoes by JoJo Moyes
This is a classic JoJo Moyes touching, heartwarming, & funny story. This premise, although a little far fetched, did grab me and had me wondering how a shoe swap could be such a life changing event. Nisha is a rich wife & mother. Her son is away at school in America. And her husband suddenly… Continue reading Someone Else’s Shoes by JoJo Moyes