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Continue reading →: Blue Sisters is… Yes, About Sisterhood
Authored by Coco Mellors; Published May 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ When I was little, all I wanted was a sister. Plagued instead with brothers, it seemed to me that a sister would make me feel much less alone in the world. Blue Sisters proves and disproves my theory, showing both the…
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Continue reading →: The Historian Has Indiana Jones Vibes
Authored by Elizabeth Kostova; Published 2005; Horror ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Historian is the Indiana Jones treatment for historians of medieval Europe. I have a hard time believing that in the real world, most academics bring stakes and silver bullets on their travels through the Balkans. The Historian follows Paul,…
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Continue reading →: Playground Will Make You Enjoy the Sea
Authored by Richard Powers; Published September 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ Playground drew me into the marine world. I’ve never gone scuba diving or even taken a marine biology course, but I was entranced by the many passages devoted to love of the ocean and its creatures. Playground is three…
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Continue reading →: The Lion Women of Tehran Both Inspires and Saddens
Authored by Marjan Kamali; Published July 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Sometimes, I am amazed by the ability of novels to simultaneously bring me to tears and lift up my heart. The Lion Women of Tehran was one of those. The novel follows two Iranian women, Elaheh and Homa,…
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Continue reading →: The Silent Patient is Right on the Edge of Horror
Authored by Alex Michaelides; Published 2019; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ The Silent Patient forced me to wonder where exactly the line is between thriller and horror. This novel isn’t exactly full of jump scares, but I still can’t recommend listening to it while you’re at home alone. The Silent Patient…
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Continue reading →: We Solve Murders Wants You to Suspend Your Disbelief
Authored by Richard Osman; Published September 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ We Solve Murders requires one thing of you before you pick it up: suspend your disbelief. Once you’ve accomplished this task, you’ll race through the mystery with gusto. We Solve Murders follows Amy, a bodyguard charged with guarding a…
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Continue reading →: Precipice is Depressingly Real
Authored by Robert Harris; Published September 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I should have paid closer attention to the opening pages of Precipice: I would have noticed that the letters quoted extensively in the book, authored by the prime minister of the UK, are all real. That fact is…
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Continue reading →: Legendborn is a Modern Twist on a Classic Legend
Authored by Tracy Deonn; Published in 2020; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I have never been enamored with the legend of Arthur and the round table. I didn’t go through a phase of wanting to be either a knight or a fair maiden; although I loved magical fantasy, Merlin was not…
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Continue reading →: The Paradise Problem Will Make You Forget Winter
Authored by Christina Lauren; Published May 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Paradise Problem is the perfect beach read. A beautiful setting, a plot that reads like a mishmash of your favorite romantic comedies, a swoon worthy hero—what more could you want? The Paradise Problem is the story of West…
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Continue reading →: The Murders in Great Diddling is for Book Lovers
Authored by Katarina Bivald; Published August 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I am a shamelessly enthusiastic fan of the TV show Castle. Sure, Nathan Fillion’s charm did most of the heavy lifting, but it was still entertaining to watch an author try to solve murders. There is that same potential…
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