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Throwback Thursday: In the Quiet by Eliza Henry-Jones

February 22, 2018 by Ann Marie 8 Comments

In The Quiet Book

Throwback Thursday is a weekly meme hosted by Renee at It’s Book Talk. Throwback Thursday is an awesome opportunity to share old favorites as well as older books in our TBR. I love this idea as I’m often distracted by all of the shiny, new books I see every day and don’t make it back to the ones that have been sitting on my shelves. My pick of the the week is: In the Quiet by Eliza ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Literary Fiction Tagged With: bookblogger, death and dying, Eliza Henry-Jones, Fiction, Throwback Thursday

Blog Tour and Giveaway: In Every Moment We Are Still Alive

February 8, 2018 by Ann Marie 10 Comments

In Every Moment We Are Still Alive

"On the middle shelf in the bathroom cabinet lies Karin's hairbrush. Her hairs are still snagged in its plastic teeth. She didn't have time to prise them out and throw them away as she usually did. The brush is thick with hair, I smell it, I press it to my mouth." In Every Moment We Are Still Alive is full of beautiful, poignant passages. Tom Malmquist's grief upon suddenly losing his wife ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Literary Fiction Tagged With: Autobiographical Fiction, blog tour, death and dying, Fiction, grief, TLC Blog Tours

Blog Tour and Giveaway: Odd Child Out

October 26, 2017 by Ann Marie 10 Comments

Odd Child Out Gilly Macmillan

Welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour for Odd Child Out! This is another book that first caught my attention at Book Expo 2017. Though I hadn't read What She Knew, the first DI Jim Clemo book, I had absolutely no problem at all reading this book as a stand-alone. Odd Child Out drew me in straightaway. It is a very steady page-turner. There are several reasons for this but the first is that this ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: blog tour, Book Expo 2017, death and dying, Family Dynamics, Fiction, Gilly Macmillan, Literary Suspense, Literary Thriller, mystery, Odd Child Out, TLC Blog Tours

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

November 18, 2016 by Ann Marie 2 Comments

Fredrik Backman And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

How could I could not say no when the publisher asked if I'd like to review this book?? Though I don't read many novellas, I am an absolute evangelist for anything written by Fredrik Backman. I would read his grocery lists. (5 stars, I'm sure!) I met the Fredrik Backman at BEA this year and was  a little surprised to find that he's absolutely nothing like his aging, curmudgeonly characters. In ...

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Filed Under: ARC, Book Review, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: aging, death and dying, Family Dynamics, fredrik backman, novella

Review of “History of Wolves” by Emily Fridlund

November 9, 2016 by Ann Marie 2 Comments

History of Wolves is one of those novels that I couldn't put down but, in the end, I have mixed feelings about. Linda is a socially awkward 14 year old girl living in Minnesota with her family. Her parents, especially her mother, are somewhat strange and detached. When the Gardener family moves in across the lake, Linda begins babysitting for their four year old son,Paul, while Paul's mother, ...

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Filed Under: ARC, Book Review, Fiction, Literary Fiction Tagged With: BEA16 Book, Coming of Age, death and dying, emily fridlund, great book club read

Review of “The A to Z of You and Me” by James Hannah

April 11, 2016 by Ann Marie 1 Comment

the a to z of you and me

This book filled me with a sense of bittersweet melancholy from start to finish. Ivo is a young man with diabetes who didn't take very good care of himself and, as a result, his kidneys have failed and he's in a hospice with (mostly) elderly people who are (mostly) dying of cancer. Throughout the book we learn the details of how he lost Mia, the love of his life. The story  of Mia and Ivo, which ...

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Filed Under: ARC, Book Review, Fiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: ARC, death and dying, Family Dynamics, Fiction, James Hannah author, NetGalley, recommended for book club

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