🌟🌟🌟🌟 What do you get when you take two sisters, both of them young adults, estranged from each other for the past decade, who will now meet again, — each sharing their conflicting first-person POV stories, back and forth in time and sequence, with one (or more) of them necessarily…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 With a sort of grownup and more sinister “Little House on the Prairie” vibe, this engrossing read tells the tale of the feisty Miss Flora Craige, who for reasons the reader will uncover, finds herself a homesteader in 1905 in the remote regions of the province of Alberta, Canada.…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 I had to sit and take a beat after closing this book, my head still spinning after the fabulous ending. What a terrific read. This book — a “maybe-murder” mystery— is a true slow burn, written with skill, and impeccable class, from the very first pages, all the way…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ “How had she become so old, so young? … It was as if she had taken over the body of another character - and now was expected to play its part.” A book I absolutely didn’t want to end, (definitely topping the list of favorites read this year), this…
🌟🌟🌟💫 A very mixed bag for this reader — first, the good (which is actually very good). This book starts with an interesting premise, featuring a detailed set of characters, each with their own POV, in a gorgeous island setting. The story is somewhat centered on a fascinating and horrifying…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A creepy and compelling peek into the not too distant future, where multiple acts of procreation (from those who can) are prioritized in a beat-up world struggling to preserve alarming population levels. Facing escalating climate pressures and mysterious viruses, (a world not too significantly unlike our own), our narrator,…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Cleverly plotted, this fun (and often funny) detective story has an intriguing twist — the story focuses mostly on our trio of detectives themselves, and their backstories, with the crimes they are to solve an added “bonus” mystery for the reader. Based in Edgar Mills (fictional small-town Massachusetts), in…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Breezy and candid, intimate and expansive, this memoir, by non-fiction writer Susan Orlean, refuses to be typecast. The author, an expert in the art of a quirky sort of storytelling, featuring uniquely interesting real-life characters, places or topics, each of which is are not quite what you’re expecting, will…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A comprehensive, compassionate look at the specific challenges and approaches targeted to assist patients with early-onset cancer (diagnosed in one who is eighteen to forty-nine years old). As unbelievably challenging as a cancer diagnosis at any age is, the author, a clinical psychologist who has focused her practice exclusively…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A fascinating look at the hidden dangers of glucose spikes, and what we can do to avoid them. Written by a biochemist, (aka the @GlucoseGoddess), this is an accessible and terrifically informative introduction to our metabolism, — the effect the food we eat (and a number of other surprising…