House of Sticks by Ly Tran ~ a Review

by Ly Tran

Ly Tran was a toddler when her family emigrated from Vietnam to Ridgewood, Queens. Her father had been a member of the South Vietnamese army, then a POW for ten years. The family does piecework to make ends meet, and holds to their Buddhist faith. At the same time, Ly wants to fit in at school so badly. She is expected to have filial piety, and helps her family in all their endeavors, but has difficulty even seeing when her paranoid father feels that glasses are a conspiracy.

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The Moon Over Kilmore Quay by Carmel Harrington ~ a Review

by Susan Roberts

They say home is where the heart is, yet somehow my heart is split in two. New York, the city I live in and love, and Ireland, the home of my ancestors—somewhere I have lived only in my dreams. And now I have no choice but to go looking…

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Going Greek by Sue Roberts ~ a Review

by Donna Huber

Do you wish you were going somewhere exotic for the summer holidays? You can travel to Greece in the pages of Sue Robert's new summer novel Going Greek.

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Under the Sea: A World Like No Other by Seeker ~ an Audiobook Review

by Donna Huber

I haven't had as much time for reading so I've relied heavily on audiobooks to get my book fix since the start of the new year. I don't listen to many nonfiction books and I also dropped my nonfiction reading goal this year, but I have found myself missing my science reads (yes, I'm still reading science for work but it isn't the kind of science that made me study biology in the first place). So when Netgalley fixed the app so I could listen to audiobooks and I saw a science audiobook, I had to get it.

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You Will Remember Me by Hannah Mary McKinnon ~ a Review & Excerpt

by MK French

A man wakes up on a deserted beach in Maryland with no memories at all. As he tries to find out who he is, he starts to discover a past he might have left behind on purpose. Lily Reid thought she knew her boyfriend Jack, but then she finds out after he disappears that he had been lying to her from the moment they met. Maya Scott had been trying to find her stepbrother Asher since he went missing, and finding him again seems like a miracle, even without his memory. But there are secrets that no one realized, and he wanted to forget.

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Talk Bookish to Me by Kate Bromley ~ a Review

by MK French

Kara Sullivan is a romance author and Bookstagrammer, but she hasn't written anything in her latest novel and her best friend is getting married. Her first love is in the wedding party, which is irritating but also inspires the steamy aspects of her novel. Her book needs a happily ever after, but maybe she could get a happily ever after of her own.

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Curse of the Specter Queen by Jenny Elder Moke ~ a Review

by MK French

After her father's death in the Great War, Samantha Knox gave up dreams of archaeological adventure and stayed in the antique bookshop where she works. A mysterious package changes all that, as men arrive intent on stealing the damaged diary. Sam, her best friend, and her childhood crush embark on an adventure revealing an order intent on performing an occult ritual that will raise the Specter Queen, the Celtic goddess of vengeance and death. Sam must solve a complex cipher to find the relic needed for the ritual before the order can incite the biggest war the world has ever seen.

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Wrapping Up Spring Reading - May Update

by Donna Huber

I don't know about you but May went really fast. It was busy as life returns to normal and it seems like I have more to do now than I did before the pandemic.

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