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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-MohtarMy rating: 3 of 5 starsThis epistolary novel takes place in the future and follows two women on opposite sides of war who secretly communicate through letters. They call themselves Blue and Red. Their correspondence gradually turns into love, but the secrecy is eventually discovered.... Continue Reading →
Title: Klara and the SunAuthor: Kazuo IshiguroGenre: Sci-fi; DystopianBook Length: 320 PagesFormat Read: eBookYear Published: March 1, 2022 Date Started: November 12, 2025Date finished: November 18, 2025 My daughter read this book in her English IB course and recommended I read it because she knows how much I enjoy sci-fi and dystopian stories. She was... Continue Reading →
Title: Standing Up: Making the Best Out of Surviving the WorstAuthor: Mary L. DevineGenre: Fiction, Domestic ViolenceBook Length: 272 PagesFormat Read: PaperbackYear Published: May 6, 2025 Date Started: March 7, 2025Date finished: March 25, 2025 This story is about a woman named Mary Sweeny who marries a man who turns out to be physically abusive.... Continue Reading →
Title: Make Love Great AgainAuthor: Brian MichelsGenre: LiteraryBook Length: NovelFormat Read: PaperbackYear Published: 2025 Date Started: March 26, 2025Date finished: April 17, 2025 This story is about the relationship between Julie and Rick, a couple who met once years earlier and then lost touch. When they meet again, sparks fly, and they quickly get married.... Continue Reading →
Title: House of DetentionAuthor: Jean EndeGenre: LiteraryBook Length: 368 PagesFormat Read: PaperbackYear Published: April 1, 2025 Date Started: April 4, 2025Date finished: April 10, 2025 This story is about the Rosen family, a Jewish close-knit family from Poland living in America after WWII. They lived in an upper middle-class community in the Bronx where they... Continue Reading →
Title: Ghosts and Gods (A Light in the House Book 3)Author: Liam JamesGenre: Fiction, Coming-of-Age, FantasyBook Length: 63 PagesFormat Read: eBookYear Published: October 26, 2024 Date Started: January 3, 2025Date finished: January 7, 2025 The third book in the A Light in the House trilogy, Ghosts and Gods takes us deeper into Joe’s life. He... Continue Reading →
Title: The Half Light (The Chronicles of Capherayna Book 3)Author: Karen MenezesGenre: Literary; Women's FictionBook Length: 254 PagesFormat Read: PDFYear Published: July 2, 2024 Date Started: December 9, 2024Date finished: December 14, 2024 In this story, we follow the Lightbender as he spends time in a ghetto district in Dorsfield known as Crikwood. There, he... Continue Reading →
Title: The Bright Freight of MemoryAuthor: Greg FieldsGenre: Literary; Coming of AgeBook Length: 289 PagesFormat Read: PDFYear Published: November 19, 2024 Date Started: October 30, 2024Date finished: November 1, 2024 This story follows two friends, Matthew Cooney and Donal Mannion from childhood to adulthood. The chapters go between the two boys’ stories sharing each of... Continue Reading →
Title: The Light PirateAuthor: Lily Brooks-DaltonGenre: Literary; ApocalypseBook Length: 352 PagesFormat Read: eBookYear Published: April 16, 2024 Date Started: October 2, 2024Date finished: October 16, 2024 This story follows a family of five (father, mother, twin sons, and a newborn daughter) during an apocalyptic flooding in Florida. After the flood, only the father, one son,... Continue Reading →
Title: Where Butterflies WanderAuthor: Suzanne RedfearnGenre: Literary Fiction; Women’s FictionBook Length: 298 Pages (print); NovelFormat Read: eBookYear Published: February 6, 2024 Date Started: September 26, 2024Date finished: September 28, 2024 This story is about a family trying to heal after one of their children dies. They move to a town where they learn a woman... Continue Reading →
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