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    Review: Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

    by Joli December 19, 2022
    by Joli December 19, 2022

    Favorite author alert! Ann Napolitano’s Dear Edward is a gorgeous book that I love, so I was really excited to read Hello Beautiful. With these two books, Napolitano has cemented herself among my favorite authors! The Summary William Waters grew…

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    Review: Gray Man

    by Katie November 3, 2022
    by Katie November 3, 2022

    The Gray Man is a novella that combines a historic legend, an approaching hurricane, and three characters living on Pawleys Island into a compelling story. The Summary  As Hurricane Caleb slams into the small town of Pawleys Island, South Carolina,…

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    Review: Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe

    by Joli August 23, 2022
    by Joli August 23, 2022

    What an incredibly captivating story. I highly suggest adding this one to your TBR list! Read on for my full review of Last Summer on State Street.

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    Review: The Couple at Causeway Cottage by Diane Jeffrey

    by Cathy August 17, 2022
    by Cathy August 17, 2022

    Have you ever read a book that gave you the shivers? A creepy thriller you just couldn’t put down? That’s exactly how I felt about The Couple at Causeway Cottage by Diane Jeffrey.

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    Review: The Peacock by Isabel Bogdan

    by Cathy June 24, 2022
    by Cathy June 24, 2022

    Take a dilapidated castle in the Scottish Highlands, add a peacock gone rogue, a group of bankers on a team building trip, an overwhelmed psychologist, a housekeeper with a broken arm, and an ingenious cook, get Lord and Lady Macbeth to try and keep it all together, and top it off with all sorts of animals – soon no one will know exactly what’s going on.

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    Review: Upgrade by Blake Crouch

    by Joli May 29, 2022
    by Joli May 29, 2022

    I first read Blake Crouch for book club when we picked up Dark Matter, then again when we read Recursion. Although I don’t ever pick up this genre (sci fi) on my own, I ended up really falling hard into…

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    Review: Little Pieces of Me by Alison Hammer

    by Joli May 17, 2022
    by Joli May 17, 2022

    When Paige Meyer gets an email from a DNA testing website announcing that her father is a man she never met, she is convinced there must be a mistake. But as she digs deeper into her mother’s past and her own feelings of being the odd child out growing up, Paige begins to question everything she thought she knew.

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    Book Review: The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin

    by Becky February 18, 2022
    by Becky February 18, 2022

    The Summary August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler’s forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and drawn curtains that she finds on her arrival are not what she…

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    Review: Come As You Are by Jennifer Haupt

    by Joli December 12, 2021
    by Joli December 12, 2021

    Thank you so much to Jennifer Haupt for sending me Come As You Are! The synopsis appealed to me right away and I’m so glad I decided to read this one. Summary Set against a backdrop of Seattle in the…

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    Review: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

    by Joli November 10, 2021
    by Joli November 10, 2021

    Great Circle was not what I expected, but I did end up liking it! Read on for my full review and find out what I didn’t expect. The Synopsis Spanning Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London,…

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