My Family’s Survival is a true story about the author’s grandmother (Rachel) and her relatives survival during the Holocaust.
Monthly Archives: February 2019
1 “Perfection: that was the goal, and perhaps the Shakers had lived it so strongly it had seeped into the soil itself, feeding those who grew up there with a propensity to overachieve and a deep intolerance for flaws.” When Mia and Pearl move to the community of Shaker Heights, they […]
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
1 Find more time to read
Find More Time to Read
[sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “Things happen when you leave, when you walk out the door, up the driveway, and into the world.” Kelly’s mother and father have always been so different. Her father is laid-back and likes to host parties. Her mother worries and is more introverted. In the book, their […]
Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan
2 The sinking of the Titanic was avoidable, but the loss of life that night is tragic. The details of that fateful night have been passed on by survivors and compiles in the book A Night to Remember.
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
In The Bookseller, Kitty wakes up from a vivid dream where she is married and a mother. Her real life couldn’t be any more different – she is a single woman who runs a small bookshop with her best friend, Frieda. The dream is hard to shake but it’s when she keeps goin
The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
Chris Guillebeau goes step-by-step on how to figure out a good side hustle idea and then make that idea come alive and thrive.
Side Hustle by Chris Guillebeau
I am trying to read at a slower pace this year and read books that are already in my house on or my Kindle. I read 9 books in January and two of those were books I already had on hand. The rest were library books (including an audiobook) except for The Tattooist of Auschwitz, which I bought for a book club I started locally.
Sarah Anne’s Bookshelf – January 2019
3 The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the author’s interviews with a man named Lale Sokolov who wanted to talk to someone about what he saw and experienced in Auschwitz after his wife died.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
1 A Backpack, A Bear and Eight Cases of Vodka is a memoir that taught me so much about a refugee’s perspective. Lev honestly tells the reader about not just his experiences, but his feelings and how he was deeply affected by the 10 years he spent as a Jew in the USSR.