Β Exile Music by Jennifer SteilΒ β 415 pages ARC from Viking and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother...
Β The Third Daughter by Talia Carner β 512 pages ARC provided by William Morrow for an honest review. Book Blurb: The turn of the 20th century findsΒ fourteen-year-old Batya in the Russian countryside, fleeing Β Β with her family endless pogroms. Desperate, her...
The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peeblesβ 464 pages Audio Book Blurb: Skinny, nine-year-old orphaned Dores is working in the kitchen of a sugar plantation in 1930s Brazil when in walks a girl who changes everything. GraΓ§a, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy...
The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis- 384 pages Book Blurb: February 1913: seventeen-year-old Leda, carrying only a small trunk and her fatherβs cherished violin, leaves her Italian village for a new home, and a new husband, in Argentina. Arriving in Buenos...
Perla by Carolina De Robertisβ256 pages Book Blurb: Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a straitlaced naval officer father, whose profession she learned early on not to disclose in a country still reeling from...
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