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The Seven O'Clock Club
The Seven O'Clock Club
by Amelia Ireland
Exceeded Expectations (11/11/2024)
When I first read about this book, it seemed like an interesting read. It is a story of four strangers who are finding it difficult to move past a traumatic event in their lives. As the author weaves the tale of the four who have been put into an experimental group therapy …more
The Stone Home
The Stone Home: A Novel
by Crystal Hana Kim
A Difficult But Important Book (11/7/2023)
If you think, by the publisher's description, that this book is just a coming-of-age story in South Korea, you would be mistaken. It is so much more. The Stone Home tells the story of Eunju Oh and her mother who were picked up off the streets in Gunsan and transported to a …more
Delicate Condition
Delicate Condition
by Danielle Valentine
Mixed Bag (7/5/2023)
In trying to formulate my thoughts to give a fair and accurate review I can only say there are a lot of themes to unpack here and one very big author agenda.

Delicate Condition is about an actor who is trying her best to get pregnant through fertility treatments. Anna …more
The Gifts
The Gifts: A Novel
by Liz Hyder
Too Much of a Stew For Me (3/7/2023)
In The Gifts, Liz Hyder has swirled together themes of feminism, religion, and ambition in this historical, magical realism novel. Told in the voices of multiple characters, their stories interweave into a knotted tale. A woman with wings is found dead in the Thames in 1840, …more
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain: A Love Story
by Vesna Goldsworthy
I Wanted to Like It More (1/11/2023)
Having read Free by Lea Ypi, a story of the collapse of Communist Albania and its effect on its citizens, I was excited to receive Iron Curtain for review. This is the story of a "red princess", a young woman whose father was vice president of her communist country. Milena …more
The God of Endings
The God of Endings: A Novel
by Jacqueline Holland
Not Your Average Vampire Book (10/19/2022)
The God of Endings is Jacqueline Holland's debut novel but it reads as if she has been writing bestsellers for years. The story is told through the eyes of her protagonist Anna, who goes by many names throughout her decades, and who is saved from death by her grandfather in …more
Widowland
Widowland: Widowland #1
by C. J. Carey
Scary Alternative History (5/9/2022)
What if England just gave up when Hitler's troops took over Czechoslovakia, Poland, France and other countries? What if Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax formed an alliance with Germany and England became a Protectorate of Germany? That is the world reality in Widowland.

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Free
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
by Lea Ypi
Things We Don't Think About (11/20/2021)
As Americans we are happy when a former Communist/Socialist country shrugs off its shackles and moves towards what we consider a free democracy-based state. What we never consider perhaps is what happens to the people and institutions in that country when that occurs. Free …more
Honor
Honor
by Thrity Umrigar
Hope In the Face of Hatred (9/16/2021)
Thrity Umrigar is an author whose work I've admired for a while and her latest book, Honor, once again proves her talent.

Smita Argawal, an Indian-American journalist is called to Mumbai in support of her colleague who has broken a hip. When Smita and her family left India, …more
At the Chinese Table
At the Chinese Table: A Memoir with Recipes
by Carolyn Phillips
Memoir in Food (7/4/2021)
If you enjoy memoirs and love food, this is the book for you. Carolyn Phillips, author of the cookbook All Under Heaven, has given us another wonderful book, this one about her time, travel, love and life in Taiwan. Phillips, a white American, initially went to Taiwan as a …more
The Woman Before Wallis
The Woman Before Wallis: A Novel of Windsors, Vanderbilts, and Royal Scandal
by Bryn Turnbull
Great Historical Fiction (7/18/2020)
If you've ever wondered about David, King Edward VIII prior to Wallis Warfield Simpson, this is the book for you. In The Woman Before Wallis, Bryn Turnbull places you in 1930's England and introduces you to Thelma, Lady Furness.

Thelma, the twin sister of Gloria Vanderbilt, …more
The Splendid and the Vile
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by Erik Larson
Another Hit by Erik Larson (1/26/2020)
I admit I am a big fan of Erik Larson and have read most of his books. When I got the chance to read and review his latest, The Splendid and the Vile, I was extremely happy.

The Splendid and the Vile starts with Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister of England in May, 194 …more
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