Tag: reading
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“Perfect Life” by Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores
“Perfect Life” is one of those books that became really popular in recent years – rich people behaving badly. For an unexplained reason, I’m drawn to the subject, and the atmosphere where a country club type community, very polished on its surface, turns out to be a pond with a piranha hunting the pretty gold…
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“The Thoroughbreds” by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham
“The Thoroughbreds” is the sequel to Elin Hilderbrand and her daughter Shelby Cunningham’s “The Academy.” Each novel follows students and faculty over the course of one year at Tiffin Academy, a New England boarding school. Though it can stand alone, I recommend reading “The Academy” first, as many storylines begun there are resolved in the…
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“The Land and Its People” by David Sedaris
I read a few collections of essays by David Sedaris, as well as his “Diaries”, which made me think why I don’t have a diary? Maybe the thought of putting something in my diary would make me want to do more interesting, everyday things? “The Land and Its People” is one of those books that…
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“Sisters in Yellow” by Mieko Kawakami
“Sisters in Yellow” starts like a mystery: a young woman, Hana, stumbles upon an intriguing article online. Her one-time mentor and trusted best friend, Kimiko, now 60 years old, is accused of confining a girl in her apartment and battering her over more than one year. The novel continues with this intriguing promise, as Hana…
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“Agnes Sharp and the Wedding to Die For” by Leonie Swann
I enjoyed two previous books in the “Miss Sharp Investigates” series by Leonie Swann and was excited to learn that the third book, “Agnes Sharp and the Wedding to Die For,” is set to be published in 2026. Luckily, I got my hands on the advance copy, thanks to the publisher and Netgalley. It was…
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“The Lake Escape” by Jamie Day
“The Lake Escape” by Jamie Day is a summer book: something you can quickly pick up and read sitting in a beach chair and sipping iced tea, then promptly put it aside when a seagull tries to steal your snack. In the style of recently popular movies and novels, “rich people behaving badly”, the story…
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“My Friends” by Fredrik Backman
What a great gift friendship is—for everybody but especially for teenagers in their formative years, when they search for understanding and acceptance, trying to find themselves and moving between excitement and depression, often in a single day. Fredrik Backman’s “My Friends” is a book about friendship that helps them accept that being different is okay.…
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“Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime” by Leonie Swann
I enjoyed reading the first book in the Agnes Sharp series and found the second one even better. The elderly residents of Sunset Hall – Agnes, Edwina, Bernadette, Charlie, Marshall, and Winston – go on vacation to a fancy, secluded Cornish hotel, partially because Edwina won a romantic gateway for two and everybody wants to…
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