The Kinship Series by Jess Montgomery has three books. I read the first book, The Widows, in 2019. Montgomery is an Ohio author and the books are set in Ohio. I live in Ohio, too, so the series appealed to me.
Sarah Anne Carter
The Four Winds tells so much about life in America in the 1930s without sounding like a history book.
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
In The Book of Lost Names, warned by a family friend that the Nazis are coming to round up 20,000 French Jews, Eva wakes in fear when there is a knock on her parents’ door. They didn’t want to leave. It turns out to be a neighbor who needs help watching her children. Eva and her mother go stay but while they are sleeping, Eva’s father is taken by the French police.
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
Brideshead Revisited is framed by Charles visiting Brideshead when he is a soldier in WW2. His artwork still dons the walls, but the family does not live there anymore. It starts and ends with him there as a soldier, which ties the book together to show how deeply the Marchmain family impacted him.
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Sarah Anne's Bookshelf - May 2021
Sarah Anne’s Bookshelf – May 2021
Code Name Helene is a fast-paced novel and I stayed up way too late one night reading it until I was finished. The timeline goes back and forth between Nancy’s current life and the one leading up to her choosing to be a spy.
Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon
I enjoyed reading The Midnight Library. It’s a modern-day fable told in a very fascinating way. It teaches the same lesson learned in Into the Wild – “Happiness is only real when shared.” We all need love and relationships in our lives to make them feel like they’re worth living.
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Shell Collector is a feel-good, easy read. It would be a perfect vacation/beach read. The book shows how we can all have a profound influence on the lives around us even when we think our impact is small.
The Shell Collector by Nancy Naigle
Alex Trebek is a well-known person even though he wasn’t considered a super-celebrity persona. The host of Jeopardy! was made famous by that show, but it wasn’t even close to the first game show he hosted. Trebek wrote The Answer Is after being diagnosed with cancer to let the world know a bit more about who he was in his own words.
The Answer Is: … Reflections on my Life by Alex ...
Sarah Anne's Bookshelf - April 2021