Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker β 384 pagesΒ ARC from Flatiron for an honest reviewΒ Book Blurb: Itβs the end of the world. Literally. Time travel is possible, but only forward. And only a handful of families choose to remain in the βnow,β living off of the scraps left...
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld –Β 416 pages ARC from Random House and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise:Β Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech, sheβs attending Yale Law School,...
Annelies by David R. Gillhamβ 480 pages Book Blurb: The year is 1945, and Anne Frank is sixteen years old. Having survived the concentration camps, but lost her mother and sister, she reunites with her father, Pim, in newly liberated Amsterdam. But itβs not as easy to...
Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg- 336 pages Book Blurb: Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she’s the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It’s the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty–even when...
The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman β 288 pages Book Blurb: On February 16, 1944, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that Peter, whom she at first disliked but eventually came to love, had confided in her that if he got out alive, he would reinvent himself...
The Aviatorβs Wife by Melanie Benjamin – 3o1 pages Book Blurb: When Anne Morrow, a shy college senior with hidden literary aspirations, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family, she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927...
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