MadelineWish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult explains that what you want one day may change. Decisions you make as a dreamer are not the same decisions you will make as a full grown adult. …
The Secret History: An Unusual Murder and Greek Lessons
The Secret History has the scent of late 1950s or early 1960s literature. It is a bit of an epic story of a young man looking at a tricky situation and the characters who surround …
The 8 Proven Benefits Of Reading Fiction
Very few adults I know are big readers. Once they had their last day of school, they felt as though they were done reading any book, let alone fiction books. What most people do not …
Apples Never Fall: The Truth About Joy’s Disappearance
Apples Never Fall starts with a waitress at a diner overhearing a group of four people talking about their mother’s disappearance. They cannot believe she disappeared without letting anyone know. All she left was a …
Firekeeper’s Daughter: Hockey, Meth And Love
The Firekeeper’s Daughter is one of those surprising books. It appeared to be one thing and ended up being a completely different thing that was very unexpected. As the book unfolds, we meet a biracial …
The 5 Best Fiction Books To Read This Spring
I have been plugging through the books of the moment and have found the best of the most recently released. I am confident that other people who are similar to my demographic, specifically a 30 …
Breasts And Eggs: A Lifetime And Being A Women
Just as foreign films are very different from Hollywood films, foreign books are very different from the “Hollywood” books. In this case, a Japanese book called Breasts and Eggs that takes on the topic of …
The Overstory: Gigantic Trees Interact With Us
The Overstory has won numerous literary awards including the Pulitzer Prize for literature and the National Book Award. Although it is a work of complete fiction, there are some themes in this book that ring …
Elevation: The Rare Condition Of Getting Lighter But Not Thinner
When ending Elevation, I could only image that Stephen King was trying to get to something. There were the obvious themes, but this is a comment on something deeper. This is not just a scary …
Station Eleven: What If A Great Killer Flu Broke Out?
I read Station Eleven in June of 2019. This is long before anyone could suspect a great killer flu would brake out and then a killer flu broke out. The story seemed implausible. Like, “that’s …