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A SWEEPING, MULTI-LAYERED ROMANCE SET IN THE PERILOUS DAYS OF WORLD WARS I AND II, WHERE GODS HOLD THE FATES--AND …
One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to leave his life behind. He shuts up the bookshop no one ever …
Jojo Moyes: Last Letter from Your Lover (2012, Penguin Publishing Group)
When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she doesn't think she'll find anything of interest. Instead …
I could not connect with this book or any of the characters, unfortunately
England, 1643. Puritanical fervor has gripped the nation. And in Manningtree, a town depleted of men since the wars began, …
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in …
This book had a slow start but my need to see how the seemingly disparate stories were woven together kept me going, and then around one-quarter of the way in, the stories picked up speed. From that point on, I loved this homage to books, libraries and their roles in our lives and I couldn’t put it down.
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe …
Nella Larsen was a major Harlem Renaissance author. Despite her lack of output, her art was powerful and well-received. This …
I stopped reading at around the 40% mark in this book. I found it hard to picture either the Greenbriar itself (when I ended up searching online, I was amazed to see the scale of the resort, which I felt did not come across in the writing) or the time period from the descriptions in the novel. The character of Dorothy came across strongly in the scenes set in 1908, but I could not to relate to her in the 1946 timeline (which was disappointing as I felt here was an opportunity to write a compelling middle-aged female character). <spoiler>After finding out (around 30% in) Enzo's fate, I struggled to care more about what happened to the characters in the 1946 timeline. </spoiler> I also struggled with the sheer number of men in that timeline and who they were in relation to Dorothy - there seemed to be so many …
