Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme created by The Broke and the Bookish blog, and now hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is: Recent Additions to My TBR These ten books are not necessarily the ten most recent additions to my TBR, but rather a diverse sampling of some of the... Continue Reading →
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton Publication Date: September 18, 2018 Goodreads Synopsis: The Rules of Blackheath Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m. There are eight days, and eight witnesses for you to inhabit. We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the... Continue Reading →
Bellewether, Susanna Kearsley Published August 7, 2018 Goodreads Synopsis: "The house, when I first saw it, seemed intent on guarding what it knew; but we all learned, by the end of it, that secrets aren't such easy things to keep." It's late summer, war is raging, and families are torn apart by divided... Continue Reading →
The Lido, Libby Page Published July 10th, 2018 Goodreads Synopsis: We're never too old to make new friends—or to make a difference. Rosemary Peterson has lived in Brixton, London, all her life but everything is changing. The library where she used to work has closed. The family grocery store has become a trendy... Continue Reading →
Women of the Dunes, Sarah Maine Published July 24th, 2018 Goodreads Synopsis: From the author of the acclaimed novels The House Between Tides and Beyond the Wild River, a rich, atmospheric tale set on the sea-lashed coast of west Scotland, in which the lives of a ninth-century Norsewoman, a nineteenth-century woman, and a twenty-first-century... Continue Reading →
Dear Mrs. Bird, A.J. Pearce Expected publication: July 3rd, 2018 Goodreads synopsis: A charming, irresistible debut novel set in London during World War II about an adventurous young woman who becomes a secret advice columnist—a warm, funny, and enormously moving story for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Societyand Lilac Girls.... Continue Reading →
The Lark, E. Nesbit First published 1922 "The great fact of life. Life is a lark - all the parts of it, I mean, that are generally treated seriously: money, and worries about money, and not being sure what's going to happen. Looked at rightly, all that's an adventure, a lark. As long as... Continue Reading →
The Vanishing, Sophia Tobin Published June 5th 2018 (First published January 12th 2017) Goodreads Synopsis: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Silversmith’s Wife comes an “undeniably page-turning (Daily Mail) novel: “Think Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre, but ten times darker…as eerie and gothic as the Yorkshire Moors it is set on” (Stylist). On top... Continue Reading →
The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller Published 2011 Goodreads Synopsis: The legend begins... Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. “The best of all the Greeks”—strong, beautiful, and the... Continue Reading →
The Village, Marghanita Laski First published 1952 Persephone Book #52 Set in the fictional English village of Priory Dean, The Village opens during the celebratory evening of V. E. Day. Although WWII has come to an end (at least in Europe), two women have still turned up for their shifts as Red Cross volunteers. This final... Continue Reading →
Dwell in Possibility 