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by Donna Huber
Meltdown has been on my review shelf for a year. I was excited to read it when I received it but as it sometimes happens I just couldn't get to it and as life seems to be going by so fast in no time it was a year later. But I'm glad I finally got to read this. I was interested in it as a possible recommendation for my post-apocalyptic book club and I think I will suggest it during our July meeting when we set the upcoming year of reading.
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May 30, 2019
The Girl in the Mirror by Steven Ramirez ~ a Review
by MK French
While renovating a house with her ex-husband, Sarah Greene finds a mirror containing the spirit of a dead girl. It seems that the original owners had a son that worshipped the devil, and the girl hadn't died of natural causes. Sarah feels compelled to discover the truth about the girl, but that might lead to even more danger.
While renovating a house with her ex-husband, Sarah Greene finds a mirror containing the spirit of a dead girl. It seems that the original owners had a son that worshipped the devil, and the girl hadn't died of natural causes. Sarah feels compelled to discover the truth about the girl, but that might lead to even more danger.
May 29, 2019
Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini @jchiaverini ~ a Review
by Susan Roberts
"Students, SA, SS, Hitler Youth - toward the Opernplatz they marched, row after row of them, their faces sinister in the garish light. In their arms were books seized from school libraries, from book shops, from shelves in homes were Mildred imagined bewildered parents lamenting the strange fanaticism that had transformed their beloved children into frightening strangers. A thunderous roar of voices drew her attention back to the square, where torches were flung upon the pile of books, smoldering and smoking, rising into flame." (p 117)
"Students, SA, SS, Hitler Youth - toward the Opernplatz they marched, row after row of them, their faces sinister in the garish light. In their arms were books seized from school libraries, from book shops, from shelves in homes were Mildred imagined bewildered parents lamenting the strange fanaticism that had transformed their beloved children into frightening strangers. A thunderous roar of voices drew her attention back to the square, where torches were flung upon the pile of books, smoldering and smoking, rising into flame." (p 117)
May 28, 2019
Gold Digger: The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor by Rebecca Rosenberg ~ a Review
by Donna Huber
I've never heard of Baby Doe Tabor and I don't usually read stories set in the 1800s, but I fell in love with Rebecca Rosenberg's writing when I listened to the audiobook The Secret Life of Mrs. London (read my review). So when I saw at NetGalley that she had a new book coming out I knew I had to give it a try. Once again Rosenberg proved she is a powerful storyteller and I fell in love with Gold Digger: The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor.
I've never heard of Baby Doe Tabor and I don't usually read stories set in the 1800s, but I fell in love with Rebecca Rosenberg's writing when I listened to the audiobook The Secret Life of Mrs. London (read my review). So when I saw at NetGalley that she had a new book coming out I knew I had to give it a try. Once again Rosenberg proved she is a powerful storyteller and I fell in love with Gold Digger: The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor.
May 27, 2019
May Reading Wrap Up
by Donna Huber
Here we are at the end of May. It has been an up and down kind of month. Work has been all kinds of crazy. We had our annual meeting on May 1 so I've been playing catch up on all the things that got pushed to the back burner in the lead up to the meeting. Then I came down with an awful upper respiratory infection and had a fever for 4 days. Then last week the wellness program at work hosted a 5K fun run/walk. It was super hot (90F+) and the course had killer hills. Going down was as hard as going up. I'm shocked I did it in 50 minutes while holding a conversation with a fellow walker most of the time.
Here we are at the end of May. It has been an up and down kind of month. Work has been all kinds of crazy. We had our annual meeting on May 1 so I've been playing catch up on all the things that got pushed to the back burner in the lead up to the meeting. Then I came down with an awful upper respiratory infection and had a fever for 4 days. Then last week the wellness program at work hosted a 5K fun run/walk. It was super hot (90F+) and the course had killer hills. Going down was as hard as going up. I'm shocked I did it in 50 minutes while holding a conversation with a fellow walker most of the time.
May 26, 2019
Smitten by the Brit by Melonie Johnson ~ a Review
by MK French
Bonnie Blythe is an English professor enamored with literature and hoping for a set wedding date with her fiance when he finishes his dissertation. When it all falls apart once she catches him cheating, her entire staid world has to change. She accepts a new summer teaching position in England, a dream she wouldn't have otherwise gone through with, and decides to see where her prior infatuation with Theo Wharton will go.
Bonnie Blythe is an English professor enamored with literature and hoping for a set wedding date with her fiance when he finishes his dissertation. When it all falls apart once she catches him cheating, her entire staid world has to change. She accepts a new summer teaching position in England, a dream she wouldn't have otherwise gone through with, and decides to see where her prior infatuation with Theo Wharton will go.
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