After jumping ahead to book three with completely different main characters, I had a lot of fun returning to the Scottish Highlands and Nina’s ever-moving bookstore in the second book of Jenny Colgan’s Scottish Bookshop series. Zoe, a single mother with a 4-year-old son, Hari, with elective mutism, has a low-paying job, no place to live, and no help from her son’s father. However, when her son’s paternal aunt, Surinder, finds out about Huri, she … Read More “The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan” »
Category: Women’s Fiction
This was a sweet love story, 50 years in the making. Every year for 49 years, Elizabeth Davenport has received a crocus (her favorite flower) and a written wish left on her doorstep by Tom Hale, the man she’s been in love with since she was 18, but couldn’t marry because of family pressure. This year, though, on the expected day, their 50th anniversary, the flower doesn’t arrive, so she decides to travel to London … Read More “Little Wishes by Michelle Adams” »
In 1934, Ruth escapes the psychiatric hospital in Tuscaloosa where she was born and raised after one of the orderlies tries to force her into an unwanted marriage. After taking a job caring for an ailing, elderly man — who gifts her with a rare coin and then dies — she becomes half of the Hawthorn Sisters, two women who claim they can heal people through touch and prayer. When her other half falls in … Read More “Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters by Emily Carpenter” »
Overall, this was the perfect book for the beginning of autumn. The writing style reminded me of a fairy tale, and I just wanted to curl up under a warm blanket with some apple cider and enjoy it uninterrupted. Alice Hoffman’s latest addition to the Practical Magic series takes us back to the years of the Salem Witchcraft Trials, and we learn about Maria Owens — her childhood, her first love, her daughter — and … Read More “Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman” »
I’ve only read a couple books by Jodi Picoult in the past — many are on my list, but my list is long so I haven’t gotten there yet — which might have helped because I didn’t have the same expectations as other reviewers. Overall, I really enjoyed this book. The book opens with Dawn Edelstein sitting on a plane that is crashing. Miraculously, she’s one of the few survivors, and the airline tells her … Read More “The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult” »