[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 Any book that starts with a Lorelai Gilmore quote is destined to be a book that this reader will love. And so it was! Katy Silver, our first person POV narrator, is a thirty year-old freelance copywriter, married to Eric, a dorkily handsome Disney film executive,…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 A continuation of the author’s earlier work, this book picks up exactly where “Till Death We Do Part” left off. As our hero, Pablo, (our somewhat-reliable narrative voice), a smart, sensitive man, now in his late fifties, continues his struggle to accept his sudden and bitter divorce…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A quiet masterpiece, (in spirit somewhat reminiscent of Penny Haw’s brilliant #TheWildernessBetweenUs), set in a rural village deep in the vinelands of Germany, this is a story to be savored. As luminous as the first glimpse of a sudden and glorious sunrise, the slowly developing magic of…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 + An absolutely beautiful read, this book resonated so powerfully with me that it was difficult to see it end. Deeply evocative, the author captures perfectly the heady rush that comes with being eighteen, on the cusp of adulthood - a time so jumbled up with innocence,…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟 Benji is a black Labrador, and interestingly, also a narrator of this book, which features a dog’s-eye view of the complications that can arise in seemingly perfect human lives. Meriel, the main (human) protagonist, and the story’s second-provided POV, believes herself to be happily married. Until the…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 A gentle look at love, as it ages, batted about and corrupted by the passage of time, as long-held fears, insecurities and secrets, do their dirty work in darkness - leaving us to wonder, is it ever too late to start again? Prickly and somewhat unlikable, Meena…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 ➕ If the Earth itself (wait, make that the “Universe”) could write, this would be its creation. Deeply wise, there’s a core of truth captured with such aching beauty that the images, ideas, and feelings so seamlessly poured into this work surround you, in the manner of…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 This is the fourth edition of the Hedgehog Hollow series, and the first one I have read - a situation I would love to remedy quickly! Based in the dreamy countryside of Yorkshire Wolds, this delightful book reads like a visit with friends, an extended “family” of…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In parts tender, and almost entirely tragic, I found this short novella incredibly moving. A gentle, compassionate and insightful look at origins, or sources - of identity, shame, grief, anger, despair - (and interestingly, of words themselves) and the roots that provide definition, and a past, that…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “He was everybody’s son, but he belonged to no one”. A complex and poignant portrait of what it means to be a mother, a father, or a son, and what it feels like to have this most central of identities suddenly ripped away. When we first meet…