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Review: Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

Title: Eleanor & Park Author: Rainbow Rowell Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Publication Date: 2013 ISBN: 9781250012579 Synopsis from Goodreads: Two misfits. One extraordinary love. Eleanor… Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough…Eleanor. Park… He knows she’llContinue reading “Review: Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell”

Review: The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

*I received this book from Random House Canada in exchange for an honest review.* Title: The Serpent King Author: Jeff Zentner Publisher: Tundra Books Publication Date: March 8, 2016 ISBN: 9781770498839 Synopsis from Goodreads: Dillard Early, Jr., Travis Bohannon and Lydia Blankenship are three friends from different walks of life who have one thing in common: noneContinue reading “Review: The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner”

Review: Everything I Never Told You

*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Everything I Never Told You Author: Celeste Ng Publisher: Penguin Books Publication Date: First published in 2014 ISBN: 9780143127550 Synopsis from Goodreads: “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family livingContinue reading “Review: Everything I Never Told You”

Review: Did You Ever Have a Family

*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Did You Ever Have a Family Author: Bill Clegg Publisher: Scout Press, and imprint of Simon & Schuster Publication Date: August 2015 ISBN: 9781476798172   Synopsis from Goodreads: On the eve of her daughter’s wedding, June Reid’s life is completely devastated whenContinue reading “Review: Did You Ever Have a Family”

Review: Grand Menteur

*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Grand Menteur Author: Jean Mare Ah-Sen Publisher: BookThug Publication Date: October 2015 ISBN: 9781771661300 Synopsis: The secret world of Mauritian street gangs is not for the faint of heart. Fraught with peril and mischief, its inner workings are a mystery to theContinue reading “Review: Grand Menteur”

Review: Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Title: Still Alice Author: Lisa Genova Publisher: originally self-published, later acquired by Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 2007 ISBN: 9780595440092 Synopsis from Goodreads: Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she’s a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successfulContinue reading “Review: Still Alice by Lisa Genova”

Book Club 6: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Titles: Life After Life Author: Kate Atkinson Publisher: Bond Street Books Publication Date: 2013 ISBN: 9780385671378 Synopsis from Goodreads: What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take herContinue reading “Book Club 6: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson”

Review: The Night Stages by Jane Urquhart

*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: The Night Stages Author: Jane Urquhart Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Publication Date: April 7, 2015 ISBN: 9780771094422 Synopsis from Goodreads: Set mainly in a remote area of County Kerry in the ’40s and ’50s, Jane Urquhart’s stunning new novel is at onceContinue reading “Review: The Night Stages by Jane Urquhart”

Review: The Sunken Cathedral by Kate Walbert

*I received a copy from Simon & Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review.* Title: The Sunken Cathedral Author: Kate Walbert Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: June 2015 ISBN: 9781476799322 Synopsis from Goodreads: Marie and Simone, friends for decades, were once immigrants to the city, survivors of World War II in Europe. Now widows livingContinue reading “Review: The Sunken Cathedral by Kate Walbert”