I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. “A family is made of people who love each other. So it is said. But far more families are made of people who are alone with each other,” (Doyle). When Cora Reims was a teenager when she was visited by an angel of the Lord …
“Phiona is lucky to be here. the Ugandan women’s team has never participated in a Chess Olympiad before because Uganda could never afford it. But this year the president of FIDE, the world’s governing body of chess, has arranged funding for the entire Ugandan team to travel to the Olympiad in the hope of garnering …
“Which one of us will outlive the others, who will become the face of this tragedy? It was always the youngest, the pretties, the whitest. There was no tragedy in being plain, no attention spared to girls who had it coming,” (Nolan). Delores “Lawrence” Franklin and her best friend Anastasia “Stasia” Lanes runaway to Mistaken …
“Maybe wanting things is what makes me a lot. If I could just want less, I’d be the right amount of person. The amount I’m supposed to be. The not-a-lot amount. The easy-to-love amount,” (McCurdy 6). Seventeen-year-old Waldo is in love with her middle-aged Creative Writing teacher Mr. Korgy and she doesn’t know why. Is …
“We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long,” (King 422). Former Prison Guard Paul Edgecomb recalls his time working on the Green Mile, a block in Cold Mountain Penitentiary for inmates on death row. Paul has met a lot of people during …
“Some calculations are simple. Sons trump daughters. Three children trump one. Deep in my heart, I had already decided that nothing could be worse than the life I had,” (Stachniak 10). During King Louis XV reign, scouted teenager girls were sent to live in a nondescript villa in Versailles before being sent to the plaza to …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “When I saw forward into my death and welcomed its yawn, I haunted me,” (LaPierre 4). In her newest poetry collection, Margo LaPierre gives a powerful and real look at psychosis, mania, and bipolar disorder. Not looking to romanticize her mental illness, LaPierre humanizes …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Why did it scare her so? She was a fighter, an independent woman with a successful profession, not house bound like her mother had been, and all the female generations before. And yet, the Stong family lineage held her captive,” (Grundy 163). Right before …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Fear is what makes people behave badly,” (Smythe 198). Samara and J. have only started their relationship when they go off to visit J.’s hometown of Upton Bay, a smalltown where tourists visit and the wealthy live. Sam has been hired to write a …
“But here is the nature of life. That we must love things with our whole selves, knowing they will die,” (McConaghy 232). Dominic Salt and his three children are the caretakers of a tiny island called Shearwater, home of the world’s largest seedbank. Once full of researchers, dangerous environmental events caused by climate change have left …
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