[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A brilliant excursion into the darkest, grittiest corners of Glasgow, where we meet what has to be one of the most spell-binding protagonists ever crafted - Rilke, a forty-seven year old head-auctioneer - a man, “too tall, too thin, too cadaverous to look like anything other than…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 The essence of love - the beautiful and tragic, the extraordinary and the mundane - revealed with such finesse and poignancy, that reading this book is an experience as painful as it is incandescent. What do we each bring to our relationships - our loves - but…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 An absolutely riveting ride, from start to finish. With its ominous pacing, vivid characterization, and alarmingly-charged plot, the author achieves an intensity of menace and foreboding that never lets up. Dealing with infamous events that took place, for the most part, in the year 1965, situated…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ This may very well be my favorite children’s picture-book ever! A composite of absolutely adorable watercolor pictures, (each edged in ink and portraying a different child with their cuddly pet), this story is so sweetly evocative that you’ll find yourself reluctant to leave this author (who is…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟+ Myths and Fairy Tales. Consciousness. Escape. Redemption. Pathos. Eccentricity. Assimilation. A wildly beautiful book, this literary masterpiece - reminiscent in spirit and some thematic elements of the also-magnificent Kazuo Ishiguro- is both heartbreakingly tender and intensely thoughtful. While the reader can’t stop thinking about the momentousness of…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 Richly immersive and entirely disturbing, this beautifully written book is destined to fascinate as much as it will horrify readers as unfamiliar up-close with this subject matter and historical time-period, as was this reader. Set in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, in the year AD…
Food That Tastes Like Home [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 In this beautifully illustrated homage to his Korean-American roots, food writer and columnist Eric Kim leads us through a delightful tour of Korean cooking covering all the bases - from quick and easy TV Dinners, to Pantry Meals, Stews, Rice (the bedrock…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ How to describe a book that alternately, makes you laugh out loud, cringe at the no-holds-barred misogyny of the fifties, grieve and ache (when your heart’s not soaring with delighted wonder), and throughout it all, cheer with wild abandon for the main protagonist Elizabeth Zott (a mother,…
[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 taut and twisty psychological puzzle, this book, exposing you to “Before” and “Now” timelines, alternatively told from the POV of the two main protagonists, will leave you tense and wondering just who you can trust, what to believe, and ultimately, just what the heck is going…