Reviews by MaryJane B. (Lynch Station, VA)

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Three Days in June: A Novel
by Anne Tyler
A wedding reunion (12/7/2024)
A wedding ceremony offers a family a time to pause and look at what went wrong and what is good about their lives at the moment. Gail, the mother of the bride must navigate the loss of a job she thought she was due, the arrival of her X with a cat to stay with her for themore
We'll Prescribe You a Cat
by Syou Ishida
A cat is the solution for all your problems (6/2/2024)
When five troubled Japanese citizens of varying ages seek help to cope with their unhappiness, they get their help from a psychiatrist/doctor/vet. This book is written with a fantasy solution to end every day troubles. How easy the solution is. Add a cat to your life andmore
Once We Were Home
by Jennifer Rosner
Once We Were Home (12/3/2022)
We follow three characters in the book Roger, Oskar and Ana from their childhood during WWII to adulthood. We meet three of them as children who have been brought to a safe place to protect them from the Nazis who are rounding up Jews. Ana and her younger brother Oskar aremore
Dirt Creek: A Novel
by Hayley Scrivenor
A mystery in a small town in Australia (3/9/2022)
Dirt Creek is set in a small town of Durton Australia.Its adult inhabitants have known each other since they were children.They remember each misdeed they did to each other and past transgressions are not forgiven.These adults have children they profess to love but oftenmore
A Million Things
by Emily Spurr
A Million Things (5/6/2021)
Reading this novel was an adventure as facts normally announced at the beginning of a book were revealed a little at a time. The reader has to determine who the main character is. A boy or girl? Age? Location of the story? Who is this "you" the main character speaks to?more
Hieroglyphics
by Jill McCorkle
Hieroglyphic , difficult to decipher (7/17/2020)
This book has four characters who are bound together by circumstances or blood relationships. The author introduces one at a time and the reader finds herself engrossed in the story only to turn the page and another character is being introduced. There is the couple Lil andmore
I Want You to Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir
by Esther Safran Foer
I Want You To Know We're Still Here (11/26/2019)
This post-Holocaust memoir has both facts about holocaust survivors as well as personal family history. Esther Safran Foer has taken on the burden of becoming the memory keeper of all of her ancestors who were lost in the holocaust. She's passed this obsession of hers tomore
Force of Nature: Aaron Falk Mystery #2
by Jane Harper
Force of Nature (11/7/2017)
This book, like The Dry, takes place in Australia with Federal agent Aaron Falk in charge. During a corporate retreat in the Giralang Ranges, four women have gone missing. Agent Faulkner and his partner Carmen Cooper have been called in because one of the missing women,more
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