Category: Contemporary
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DREAM HOUSE by Catherine Armsden
This book looks SO good! Thank you very much to Yellow Pear Press for this free copy!! Check this synopsis out:Ā Lush with sensory detail and emotional complexity,Ā Dream HouseĀ is about family, home, and an architectās journey to understand the crippling hold one house has on her. In the months following her parentsā fatal car accident…
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Have you seen these AMAZING books??
Thank you so much to Little Bird Publicity for this amazing book mail!! I’mĀ so excited read each and every one of these!! SOMETHING LIKE HAPPY by Eva Woods –Ā Annie Hebden is stuck. Stuck in her boring job, with her irritating roommate, in a life no thirty-five-year-old would want. But deep down, Annie is still…
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Review: CASTLE OF WATER by Dane Huckelbridge
I read this novel SO incredibly fast. It was so beautiful and the writing was EXQUISITE. “And there, amid the blue honey water and white sugar sands and wide-open smiles, of the native Polynesians, he knows he has finally found the place- not where he wants to die, but, rather, where he wants to live.”…
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Review: CICADA SUMMER by Maureen Leurck
Thank you so much to Maureen Leurck and Kensington for providing me with a free finished copy – all opinions are my own. Summary: People keep a house alive, not the other way around.Ā Alex Proctor has seen the truth of this in every empty, rundown property sheās bought and renovated since her divorce almost three…
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Review: GOODBYE, VITAMIN By Rachel Khong
Summary: Freshly disengaged from her fiancĆ© and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town and arrives at her parentsā home to find that situation more complicated than she’d realized. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically…
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Review: TOUCH by Courtney Maum
Summary: Sloane Jacobsen is one of the world’s most powerful trend forecasters (she was the foreseer of āthe swipeā), and global fashion, lifestyle, and tech companies pay to hear her opinions about the future. Her recent forecasts on the family are unwavering: the world is over-populated, and with unemployment, college costs, and food prices all…