Roz, a single woman in Ireland who is barely making ends meet and living paycheck to paycheck, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant after a “one night stand.” She decides she wants to adopt out (sell) the baby, and finds a great online agency that will help make it possible. She is introduced to Julie–half of a millionaire couple–who wants Roz to move into the basement of her and her husband’s home in NYC to finish her … Read More “The Perfect Mother by Caroline Mitchell” »
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This delightful book alternates between the present day (2018) and 1940. In 1940, Anna Dale, a young, naive artist from New Jersey, wins a contest to paint a large mural to represent Edenton, North Carolina. In 2018, Morgan Christopher, a young art student who is sitting in prison serving a 3-year sentence for a DUI that seriously injured someone else, is paroled so she can work on restoring that same mural. Morgan knows nothing about … Read More “Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain” »
I’ll lead this review off by saying that I usually really like Jill Mansell’s books, especially her newer books, so I was excited to get a copy of Mixed Doubles to read and review. However this particular one is a re-release from the late nineties, and it feels very dated. Three best friends end their year together sharing their resolutions. One wants to stay married (even though her husband is a jerk, a gambling addict, … Read More “Mixed Doubles by Jill Mansell” »
Hill Women is a memoir about life in and around Appalachia, especially focused on the author, Cassie Chambers, and her mother and grandmother. Her memoir compares the lives of her grandmother (with very little education, who met her 30-something-year-old husband when she was a young teenager,) to her mother (who fought for a local college education while married and raising a baby,) to Cassie herself (an Ivy League graduate and Harvard lawyer.) The author emphasizes … Read More “Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers” »
I had high hopes for a book described as being a collection of “stories that swing a wrecking ball at our assumptions about women.” However, either my assumptions about women (as someone who identifies as a woman) are vastly different than the assumptions the rest of the general population makes or this is yet another book about the commodification of women. As short stories, some were interesting and had a Roald Dahl-esque quality. However, the … Read More “Women on Top by Michelle Miller” »