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  • Review: THE FRENCH GIRL by Lexie Elliott

    Review: THE FRENCH GIRL by Lexie Elliott

    Thank you so much to Berkley Publishing for providing my free review copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  We all have our secrets… They were six university students from Oxford–friends and sometimes more than friends–spending an idyllic week together in a French farmhouse. It was supposed to be the perfect summer getaway…until…

  • Review: BIRDS OF WONDER by Cynthia Robinson

    Review: BIRDS OF WONDER by Cynthia Robinson

    Many thanks to Smith Publicity for providing my free review copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  Fiction. One August morning while walking her dog, high-school English teacher Beatrice Ousterhout stumbles over the dead body of a student, Amber Inglin, who was to play the lead in Beatrice’s production of John Webster’s Jacobean…

  • Review: TWIST OF FAITH by Ellen J. Green

    Review: TWIST OF FAITH by Ellen J. Green

    Thank you so much to Amazon Publishing and Thomas & Mercer for providing my free review copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  After the death of her adoptive mother, Ava Saunders comes upon a peculiar photograph, sealed and hidden away in a crawl space. The photo shows a shuttered, ramshackle house on…

  • Awesome Book Mail: GIRLS BURN BRIGHTER by Shobha Rao

    Awesome Book Mail: GIRLS BURN BRIGHTER by Shobha Rao

    I am so thankful to Flatiron Books for sending me a STUNNING copy of Girls Burn Brighter! It looks rather intense so I am anxious to start reading it! I cannot wait!! A searing, electrifying debut novel about the extraordinary bond between two girls driven apart by circumstance but relentless in their search for one…

  • Book Mail: EXHIBIT ALEXANDRA by Natasha Bell

    Book Mail: EXHIBIT ALEXANDRA by Natasha Bell

    Oh my goodness, thank you so much to Crown Publishing for sending me this lovely copy! I have some serious cover love for this book and it sounds incredible! I am VERY excited to read it! SYNOPSIS:  He thought he knew everything about her until she went missing. Before she disappeared, Alexandra Southwood lived an…

  • Book Mail: THE TRICK by Emanuel Bergmann

    Book Mail: THE TRICK by Emanuel Bergmann

    Many thanks to Atria Books for sending me this gorgeous copy! Surprise book mail is the best book mail! It looks wonderful and I cannot wait to read it! SYNOPSIS:  A deeply moving, humorous story of a boy who believes in everything and an old man who believes in nothing. In 1934, a rabbi’s son…

  • Review: DREADFUL YOUNG LADIES AND OTHER STORIES by Kelly Barnhill

    Review: DREADFUL YOUNG LADIES AND OTHER STORIES by Kelly Barnhill

    Thank you so much to Algonquin Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  When Mrs. Sorensen’s husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in “Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch.” In “Open the Door and the Light Pours Through,” a young man wrestles with grief…

  • Little Brown Book Mail: BLUE DREAMS by Lauren Slater & HORMONAL by Martie Haselton

    Little Brown Book Mail: BLUE DREAMS by Lauren Slater & HORMONAL by Martie Haselton

    Thank you so much to Little, Brown and Company for sending these two fantastic nonfiction books my way. I have always been fascinated by psychology, medicine, and human behavior, so when I received these I was ecstatic! I cannot wait to dive in!  Do you read nonfiction? A few years ago I read two books:…

  • Review: SUNBURN by Laura Lippman

    Review: SUNBURN by Laura Lippman

    Thank you so much to William Morrow for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “Sometimes, he used to wake up in the middle of the night and find her looking at him. The light from that streetlamp threw a stripe across her eyes, and it was as if she were wearing…

  • Book Mail: BRASS by Xhenet Aliu

    Book Mail: BRASS by Xhenet Aliu

    Thank you so much to Random House for this amazing surprise! I love the cover and this looks excellent! It’s been on my radar for months and cannot wait to read it! SYNOPSIS:  A waitress at the Betsy Ross Diner, Elsie hopes her nickel-and-dime tips will add up to a new life. Then she meets…

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