Showing posts with label ARC-Atria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ARC-Atria. Show all posts
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Review: Skylark (by Paula McLain)

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My Rating: 4.5 stars With her latest novel Skylark , author Paula McLain brings us a gorgeously written tale of survival and resilience th...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Review: What We Left Unsaid (by Winnie M. Li)

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My Rating: 4 stars As I sit down to write this review, it dawns on me that I have now read two road trip themed books back-to-back -- whil...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Review: The Story She Left Behind (by Patti Callahan Henry)

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My Rating: 4.5 stars I am officially back!   I completed my final classes for my Master’s degree last week and while I’m admittedly reliev...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Review: My Friends (by Fredrik Backman)

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My Rating: 5 stars This year has been a chaotic one for me: in addition to being super busy at work, I’ve also had some family issues I had ...
Sunday, September 3, 2023

Review: The River We Remember (by William Kent Krueger)

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My Rating:  4.5 stars I loved William Kent Krueger's previous stand- alone novel  This Tender Land  and since finishing that book, I...
Sunday, August 27, 2023

Review: The Invisible Hour (by Alice Hoffman)

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My Rating:  4 stars I had heard so many great things about Alice Hoffman's works, but didn't get the chance to read anything by her ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Review: The Many Daughters of Afong Moy (by Jamie Ford)

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My Rating:  4.5 stars Jamie Ford is one of my favorite authors, so it shouldn't come as a surprise how delighted I was to get my hands ...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

Review: Bomb Shelter (by Mary Laura Philpott)

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My Rating:  3.5 stars I read this for book club and overall, I enjoyed this well-written and witty memoir-in-essays.  Mary Laura Philpott b...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Review: The Winners (by Fredrik Backman)

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My Rating:  5 stars  A couple days ago, I received a surprise in my email box that made me squeal with delight.  An advance copy of a book...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Review: No Land to Light On (by Yara Zgheib)

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  My Rating: 3 stars I'm a little torn on this one.  The story, which revolved around a Syrian couple caught up in the travel ban agai...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

Review: Eight Perfect Hours (by Lia Louis)

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My Rating:  4 stars As I'm sure it has been for many, I found the past two months to be especially difficult and stressful — part of th...
Monday, January 25, 2021

Review: The Paris Library (by Janet Skeslien Charles)

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My Rating: 4 stars This felt like such a perfect read!  As a book lover, I'm of course drawn to stories about libraries and book stores,...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Review: Anxious People (by Fredrik Backman)

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 My Rating: 5 stars I've been wanting to read a Fredrik Backman book for a while now (I have pretty much all of his previous works on m...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Review: Musical Chairs (by Amy Poeppel)

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 My Rating:  5 stars This was such a charming, delightful read!  I honestly can't remember the last time I had so much fun read...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

Review: In Five Years (by Rebecca Serle)

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My Rating:   3 stars Once again, I seem to be the outlier with this book, as I wasn't as enamored with it as most other reader...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Review: This Tender Land (by William Kent Krueger)

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My Rating: 5 stars Wow, what a story!  It's not often that I start a review off this way, but I'm a bit speechless right...
Sunday, April 29, 2018

Review: The Eight Mountains (by Paolo Cognetti)

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  My Rating:  4 stars This was a beautifully written story about the friendship of two young Italian boys, Pietro and Bruno – both...