🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 “We’re all interconnected , and when you see that, you see how beautiful life is.” A book about damaged people, choices, and most of all, about love - the complicated, fierce love between sisters, the compassionate love of lifelong friends, the synergistic love of team mates, and the earth-shattering…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 “Dogs bring a purity to all they encounter. We don’t deserve dogs, and yet they continue to bring their magic to our lives and make us better versions of ourselves.” Indeed. And what could be better than reading this heartwarming book about dogs - except perhaps, dogs themselves, in…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 “There are things on this earth that only exist because you have beheld them. If you weren’t there, they never would have been.” What would it take to encounter, up close and personal, and see, really see, the world around you - to appreciate the things you can comprehend,…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A British-Columbia based thriller, set deep in the interior of the Pacific Northwest, on a remote forested island decimated by the closing of the local mill. As the remaining villagers attempt to find a means to survive, poaching of magnificent old-growth trees, many of them hundreds (or even thousands)…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 One of my very favorites when young, this middle-grade series deserves a re-read, and this reader is certainly up for the challenge. A twenty-six book series, begun in 1946 by author Walter R Brooks (and marvelously illustrated by Kurt Wiese), most of these books are currently out of print,…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 “It’s only when we feel safe, not judged, not crazy, that a lot of other people feel some of the exact same things, that we can better identify what we are really feeling, and what we really need. We can better hear our own voice. And not just with…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 Wildly twisty, this suspenseful read starts out as what feels like a slow and interesting burn. With building insight into the puzzling activities of the neighbors populating a somewhat sinister lake-view community, our story is led by the first-person POV narration of Casey Fletcher, a thirty-something “troubled” actress who…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A poignant look at motherhood, love, and familial relationships- this is a story of the complex emotional bonds, experienced by women, victimized by both their upbringing and domestic situations, that may become the chains of obsession and subjugation. But must they? A fresh and satisfyingly empowered look at the…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A fascinating speculative premise and a read I absolutely could not put down for almost exactly the first half (Part1). Although this reader did find the pacing and characterization of the second half (Part 2) less rewarding, overall this is a stunning read - original, interesting and well worth…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 An ambitious, suspenseful and interesting read, made intimate as it is told from the first-person perspective of two women, in two different time periods : Tash, a journalist with a toddler, struggling to carve out a place for herself amongst a strange and much richer clan of sparkly young…