Book Reviews
We love reading!
Here are some of the books we've recently enjoyed.
by Robyn Harding
We all know them — those people who make life appear effortless. That’s the Adler family. It seems like their lives are perfect. Until they aren’t.
Thrillers are meant to keep you turning the page. They’re meant to keep you guessing. But The Perfect Family with its multiple points of view did something else for me, it kept me caring about the characters. A masterful blend of empathy and mystery, Robyn Harding’s novel is one of my favorites.
By Abbi Waxman
Another book about books. I sense a theme.
In The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, the title character, Nina, is perfectly content with planning each day of her 29-year-old existence. Her life comprises working at a bookstore, managing her trivia team and her cat.
Masterful at daily schedules (which are peppered between the book’s chapters) Nina has everything figured out, thank you very much. Until she doesn’t.
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill is a delightful rom-com with a book focus. The full review is here.
The power of books lies not just in their ability to entertain and inform, but in how they make us consider or reconsider the world.
84, Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff is a collection of letters between Helene, a book-loving New Yorker, and Frank Doel, the manager of Marks & Co, a specialty bookstore in London located at 84, Charing Cross Road. The second title, The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street consists of diary entries tracing the impact of the first book’s publication on the life of the author.
These two books are a delightful, inseparable pair. The full review is here.
It's no surprise that we love books about books. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald was originally written in Swedish before being published in English in 2016. The story follows Sara, a book-loving young Swedish woman who arrives in Broken Wheel, Iowa to visit her pen-pal Amy. Sara's arrival upends the small town and the locals in turn change Sara's life. If you love stories about books and bookstores, with a little bit of romance, you may enjoy this charming novel. Read more