The Wright Sister picks up when Katharine marries at 52 to a widowed family friend and Orville no longer speaks with her. The book is fiction other than that, but I feel like I got a glimpse into Katharine’s personality.
Do you know how to find your way in the world without a GPS? Can you look at the clouds after lunch and know if it will rain or not? Can you tell the prevailing wind direction from looking at a tree? Tristan Gooley knows how and he share his knowledge in the books he’s written to make nature’s signs accessible to all people.
Natural Navigator and Lost Art of Reading Nature Signs by ...
Sarah Anne's Bookshelf - June 2021
Sarah Anne’s Bookshelf – June 2021
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.
The Hollows and The Stills by Jess Montgomery
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.