Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison Pataki β 416 pages ARC from Ballentine Books and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Massachusetts, 1836. Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo...
Β Small Things Like These by Claire KeeganΒ Book Blurb: It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local...
Mercury by Amy Jo Burns β 336 pages ARC from Celadon and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Itβs 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someoneβs table and...
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters β 307 pages Book Blurb: July 1962. A Miβkmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the familyβs youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old...
Recipe for a Charmed Life by Rachel Linden β Audio Β ARC from PRH audio and Berkley for an honest review Book Blurb: American chef Georgia May Jackson has one goalβto run her own restaurant in Paris. After a grueling decade working in Parisian kitchens, she is on the...
The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryanβ 368 pages ARC from Random House, Ballantine Books and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: When new deputy librarian, Juliet Lansdown, finds that Bethnal Green Library isn’t the bustling hub she’s expecting,...
Review:Strangers in the Night by Heather Webb was an intimate introduction to Frank Sinatra and his lifelong love, Ava Gardner. Admittedly, I knew next to nothing about the man or the woman behind their star status. I for sure have heard Frankβs music as my parents were, and still are, fans of his songs.The good news is that by writing in the first person from Frankβs POV and Avaβs POV, the reader is introduced to them in an accessible way. It didnβt matter if youβve been a lifelong fan or not familiar with either of them, we all start the book as equals.I was shocked at the at how fast their relationship could go from cold to hot. The way they could both love and fight with such passion and acrimony was crazy. Yet they always, well almost always, came back to one another.Learning about how they were raised, the struggles they went through, and the allowances given to men (not women) were all addressed throughout the book. Depression, alcoholism, addiction, and infidelity were commonplace in star-studded Hollywood.Fans of movies and old Hollywood will adore this book and folks like me, who knew little to none about Frank and Ava will enjoy it too!Heather Webb, Author @msheatherwebb @williammorrowbooks π What's your favorite song? π#newreview#bookreader#bookreview#goodbookfairybookreview #tbr #AddtoTBR#goodbookfairy... See MoreSee Less