What You Are Looking For is in the Library by Michiko Ayoyama ARC from Hanover Square Press for an honest review Book Blurb: βWhat are you looking for?β This is the famous question routinely asked by Tokyoβs most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. Like most...
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata β Audio Book Blurb: Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they...
The Last Rose of Shanghai by Weina Dai Randel β 429 pagesARC from Lake Union – Amazon Publishing and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn together by fate and the freedom of...
Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim β 416 pagesΒ ARC from Ecco Books for a honest reviewΒ Book Blurb: Beasts of a Little Land: An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of...
Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie β 464 pages Book Blurb: Kyoto, Japan, 1948. “If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist.” Such is eight-year-old Noriko “Nori”...
Universe of Two by Stephen P. Kiernan β 448 pages ARC from William Morrow and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: Graduating from Harvard at the height of World War II, brilliant mathematician Charlie Fish is assigned to the Manhattan Project. Working with...
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