I enjoyed reading The Guest List. It was a good reminder that secrets tend to find a way out in the end. It’s always better to just be honest.
Fiction
In Five Years is a book about how people change and that some things in life can’t be forced. I enjoyed the story and really wondered if they dream would come true – and if it did, how it would with Dannie fighting against it. I like the message it brings across – hope and finding one’s true self.
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
The Printed Letter Bookshop is full of how family, friends and even new acquaintances all weave into our own world and create a web that sometimes supports and sometimes hides us. Madeline changes for the better throughout the book, but has to learn some hard lessons to do that.
The Printed Letter Bookshop by Katherine Reay
As Sooley gets used to American college life, he practices basketball every day, despite being red-shirted for the first season. However, injuries lead him to finally being put in for a game and he shows how much he had advanced as a player … and his whole world starts to change.
Sooley by John Grisham
This book is fascinating and the topic is very Crichton-worthy. I don’t quite think it would have completely ended up with the storyline it did if Cricton had finished it instead of someone else.
Micro by Michael Crichton
The Switch is a perfect summer read and was a fun book to escape into when I read at night. It’s all about family, friends, love and making sure you don’t overlook the people right around you. If you’re looking for something fun and light, you’d enjoy The Switch.
The Switch by Beth O’Leary
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
Eight stories are woven together through time by one special rock in Treasures. A shamrock shaped rock that first finds itself in the hands of St. Patrick eventually becomes a key item in several people’s stories throughout the ages and even into the future.
Treasures: Visible and Invisible by Teresa Linden and other authors
The Traveler’s Gift is in the genre that I like to call modern-day fables. It is a story that tells a lesson. Several Mitch Albom books are in this genre, along with The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I enjoy reading those kind of books as I feel they stay with me longer because I’m pondering over the lesson the book was trying to teach.