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 ...
death and dying
Blog Tour and Giveaway: 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 ...
Blog Tour and Giveaway: Odd Child Out
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 ...
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 ...
Review of “History of Wolves” by Emily Fridlund
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, ...
Review of “The A to Z of You and Me” by James Hannah
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 ...
