🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ An eclectic collection of stories from one of my very favorite authors, which this reader found as unexpectedly delightful as anything ever met, between the pages. What if you got to do a do-over? Not one, actually, but if you were granted an infinite number of chances to build…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A very strange book, and one that is so unique it is virtually guaranteed to evoke strong feelings in the reader - as this is a book that will challenge as much as it enthralls. Narrated by a voice that is ageless, unnamed, and only very loosely described as…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A slow burn, this gothic-inspired novel is dark, claustrophobic and brimming with fetid secrets. Jude, our middle-aged first-person POV narrator, is as unreliable as they come. Never fully sober, Jude is hallucinatory, and traumatized as she takes a trip down memory lane. On her first solo visit to the…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 A warm and remarkably candid memoir shared by the man who became a TV sensation as Arthur Fonzarelli aka “The Fonz”, a role so iconic many of us have come to equate the actor with the TV persona himself. Henry Winkler however, as we see clearly here, is quite…
🌟🌟🌟💫 With plenty of suspects, this intricately-plotted legal thriller kept me engaged right up through the twists and turns and eventual chilling ending. The horrific murder of an entire family, - mom, dad, adult son and teenage daughter - has the Portland, Oregon community reeling. When Robin Lockwood, criminal defense…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A fast and furious look at memory, trauma and the terror of navigating both, as we meet a survivor of a terrible crime, nine years later, and share in her frantic quest to resolve her part in a past she cannot reconstruct. Charlie Colbert, now a successful NY editor-in-chief,…
🌟🌟🌟💫 An earnest, albeit depressing, look at climate change, thirty years down the road, and the political upheaval at play in a world no more divided than what what we have in place today. As tensions rise to the critical point, measures put in place by a ‘Green New Deal’-…