In Nine Perfect Strangers, Masha is climbing the corporate ladder quickly until she is taken down by a heart attack and changes her life completely. Her health transformation is so drastic and powerful that it makes her want to inspire others to become their healthiest, best self. She opens a spa – The Tranquillum House – where she confiscates snacks, wine, cell phones and enforces a smoothie-based personalized diet, exercise program and a time of silence.
Will Wilder learns a lot about right and wrong in The Relic of Perilous Falls. While he searches for the relic for the adventure of it, he soon realizes he is being caught between wanting to do something for a good reason but having it turn out to be the wrong choice in the end.
In Where the Crawdads Sing, Kya learns to live and survive on her own in the marsh. She digs mussels and sells them for food and gas for her boat. A local boy who has known her family since she was young starts coming to visit and teaches her to read. Tate ends up breaking her heart, but she opens it up again for another local boy, Chase Andrews. When Chase ends up dead, the town suspects “The Marsh Girl,” but can they prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt?
Love in the Time of Cholera was not the book I was hoping it would be. Instead of a lofty love story, it was gritty and realistic. Every character has several big faults and the story is more about human nature than it is about love and waiting for love.
A young man finds himself out of place in his world. He cannot stop thinking individual thoughts when he is only supposed to agree with the collective “we.”
Set a mere 19 years in the future, American Omens brings to life an America where Christianity is considered a hateful thing and is slowly being outlawed and made illegal. Books are censored, churches are monitored
“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 […]