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The Bog Wife
by Kay Chronister
Weird Story... but in a Good way (8/27/2024)
The Bog Wife drew me in with its atmospheric story about a crumbling ruin that is home to five waring siblings and a bog whom their family has an ancient bond with. Part eco gothic thriller and part coming of age, this story is very weird, but in a good way!
I loved themore
The Other Valley: A Novel
by Scott Alexander Howard
Free will versus Fate collide in this coming of age Fantasy (2/25/2024)
I got chills when reading this speculative fiction story about a town surrounded by its identical past and future and the towns people living out their lives while contemplating their free will vs their fate.
The writing is beautiful but at times melancholy. This creativemore
Wandering Stars: A novel
by Tommy Orange
Broken stories bring to life a families generation (2/25/2024)
I had to think about this one for an entire day before I could sort my feelings out about it. It’s a complicated story and reading it felt a bit disconnected like it was two separate stories that were forced together without much transition. But I think I have decided thatmore
Devil Makes Three: A Novel
by Ben Fountain
A morally complex political thriller, love story and history lesson. (9/4/2023)
Ben fountains Devil Makes Three is set in Haiti in the early nineties during the US governments involvement in the violent Coup d'état fall of the democratically elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide.

The story unfolds surrounding the rise of a brutal militarymore
Last House Before the Mountain
by Monika Helfer
Lovely story but disjointed translation (2/9/2023)
Monika Helfer's family story is interesting and would be captivating if not for the disjointed writing style which may have something to do with the translation. The story is about a family living in Western Austria during WWI and centers on a women named Maria and hermore
Take My Hand
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Betrayed (10/3/2021)
This book is written in a profound way that makes it heartbreaking yet hopeful, and will make you dig deep and explore uncomfortable truths about America and racism. The premise is of a Black Nurse who eventually discovers a terrible injustice done to her patients andmore
A Million Things
by Emily Spurr
Devastating and Beautiful (5/6/2021)
This book caught my attention from the get go. I have family in Australia so I enjoy books with Australian settings but the subject matter is what hooked me as it's very close to my heart. This book will be fantastic for bookclub discussions and people with personal ormore
The Girl in His Shadow
by Audrey Blake
Girl Power (4/30/2021)
Good historical Fiction on women and medicine set in the mid 1800s London. The book examines how women were band from practicing medicine and ethical situations in discovering lifesaving techniques. There is a big romance set in this book,
but enough medical experiments andmore
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