Title: Summer HoursAuthor: Amy Mason DoanGenre: RomancePublished On: June 4, 2019Publisher: Graydon HouseSource: physical copyPages: 416 Synopsis: “Fantastic. Wistful, mysterious, sparkling with secrets, scenery, and some steaminess. I raced through Summer Hours in a day!” —Meg Donohue, USA Today bestselling author “A perfect summer read.”—Booklist “Engaging and nostalgic. Doan’s writing sweeps you away.”—Helen Hoang, author …
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Opening Lines (Best, favorite, funny, unique, shocking, gripping, lines that grabbed you immediately, etc.) Hello Readers! I don’t know …
Title: Normal PeopleAuthor: Sally RooneyGenre: Adult FictionPublished On: August 28, 2018Publisher: HogarthSource: physical copyPages: 304 Synopsis: At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from …
Title: Hollywood ParkAuthor: Mikel JollettGenre: MemoirPublished On: May 26, 2020Publisher: Celadon BooksSource: physical copyPages: 384 Synopsis: “Hollywood Park is a triumph.” ~O, The Oprah Magazine Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country’s most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and …
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Reasons Why I Love [insert your favorite book title, genre, author, etc. here]. Hello Readers! I hope you are …
Hello Readers! We could all use some good news, and over the past few weeks I’ve been seeing a plethora of bookish news that makes me smile. Maybe I’m spending more time perusing the internet? Maybe being forced to stay home has made the good things stand out more? Or maybe the stressful times have …
Title: Beach ReadAuthor: Emily HenryGenre: Contemporary RomancePublished On: May 19, 2020Publisher: BerkleySource: physical copyPages: 384 Synopsis: A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author …
Title: The Tourist Attraction (Moose Springs, Alaska, #1)Author: Sarah MorgenthalerGenre: Contemporary RomancePublished On: May 5, 2020Publisher: Sourcebooks CasablancaSource: digital copyPages: 352 Synopsis: When Graham Barnett named his diner The Tourist Trap, he meant it as a joke. Now he’s stuck slinging reindeer dogs to an endless string of resort visitors who couldn’t interest him less. …
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is The Last Ten Books I Abandoned (this could be books you DNFed, books you decided you were no longer …
Title: Big SummerAuthor: Jennifer WeinerGenre: Women’s Lit, Contemporary RomancePublished On: May 5, 2020Publisher: Atria BooksSource: digital copyPages: 368 Synopsis: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “nothing short of brilliant” (People) Mrs. Everything returns with an unforgettable novel about friendship and forgiveness set during a disastrous wedding on picturesque Cape Cod. Six years after the fight that …
