She sat next to the bed in the same chair where she had first rocked the boys when they were teething and sleepless and then years later waited for them to come home, trying not to watch the clock hands make their way towards midnight. The shades were down, but she could see the August …
Love Warrior Glennon Doyle Melton Flatiron Books “The journey is learning that pain, like love, is simply something to surrender to. It’s a holy space we can enter with people only if we promise not to tidy up … the courage to surrender comes from knowing that the love and pain will almost kill us, …
I Liked My Life (NetGalley) Abby Fabiaschi St. Martin’s Press release date: January 31, 2017 Maddy is dead. Jumped, apparently, from the campus library where she worked. Or I should say, volunteered. Maddy’s full time job is was taking care of her CEO husband Brady and their teenage daughter Eve. She was one of those …
Girl Waits With Gun Amy Stewart Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Constance Kopp and her sisters Norma and Fleurette manage the farm just fine, thank you very much. They garden, raise chickens (and pigeons!), and, since their mother died, have successfully rebuffed brother Francis’s pleas to come live with him and his family in town: “You can’t …
The Winter in Anna (NetGalley) Reed Karaim W.W.Norton & Company release date: Jan. 17, 2017 … she carried her damage like a faint shadow across even the brightest day … This beautiful woman. This friend. We all of us have a secret, I’m sure. That one secret that hovers like a dark shadow, dimming ever-so-slightly …
My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry Fredrik Backman Simon & Schuster I was enchanted by Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove and Brit Marie Was Here. But with features in the New York Times and thousands of reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, there’s probably not much left to say about My Grandmother Asked Me …
The Tea Planter’s Wife (NetGalley) Dinah Jeffries Crown Publishing Sometimes you’re just ready for a book, you know? The past week has been gray and rainy; the temperatures are slowly dropping. In the morning there’s even a bit of fog. So turning to a book set in a place far away and a time long …
It Was Me All Along (Blogging for Books) Andie Mitchell Clarkson Potter Food. It’s memories of family–weekday meals of tuna casserole or Sundays at Grandma’s with her special golumpki. It’s the comfort of ice cream after a bad break-up or chocolate chip cookies after an trying day at work. Food is the Saturday night entertainment …
Did you ever have a family Bill Clegg Gallery/Scout Press We know from the outset that June Reid loses daughter Lolly and her fiance, as well as her ex-husband and boyfriend Luke in a horrific accident on the eve of Lolly’s wedding. Any mother, of course, would be devastated and June is no different. But …
The Trouble With Goats and Sheep (NetGalley) Joanna Cannon Scribner Mrs. Creasy has gone missing and the entire estate is abuzz. Especially the residents of the Avenue. Mrs. Creasy was friend (confidant, even) to all–and knew the secrets that lived behind closed doors. She knew the secrets of number 8 and number 12 and even …
This is my symphony 