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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 →
Title: When We Were FriendsAuthor: Jane GreenGenre: Women’s FictionBook Length: 44 Pages (print); Short StoryFormat Read: eBookYear Published: October 1, 2024 Date Started: September 27, 2024Date finished: September 27, 2024 This story is about the fall of a quick friendship. Lucy is the main character. She’s just been divorced and was looking for a female... Continue Reading →
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