Hello Dearest Readers, I hope your October was filled with crisp apple cider and lots of flannel. This month, we are recommending a new book, an old book, and a series. Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham (available 11/29/16) The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a…
The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living (one of our August picks) is Louise Miller’s first novel, the result of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program. The reader is introduced to Olivia “Livvy” Rawlings, a pastry chef at an exclusive Boston club, during a rather tumultuous period in her life. She is not happy in Boston, she…
Happy October, my fellow readers. I know it’s cliché, but the crisp, beautiful weather of October always makes me think of that passage in L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables: “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” This month, we’re excited to read the following books: Small Great Things…
“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils” – You’ve Got Mail Happy September! Here are three books we’re looking forward to this month: The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman (available 09/06/16)* The Bookshop on the Corner by…
Nobody is ever just a refugee. Nobody is ever just a single thing . . . We dehumanize people when we reduce them to a single thing. – Chimamanda Adichie The United Nations’ World Humanitarian Day honors all humanitarians who have worked in the promotion of the humanitarian cause, and those who have lost their…
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman was one of the books picked for our June Bookshelf. Goodreads offers the following description: Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she’s posted to an alternative London. Their mission – to retrieve a…
Every year, when August arrives, I realize that the summer is more than halfway over and I always feel like the season has been a blur. This year, I once again find myself dumbstruck by how quickly the summer has flown by. I hope you cherish every day of this final summer month! Here are…
The first Maureen O’Hara movie I saw in was Disney’s 1961 hit, The Parent Trap with Haley Mills and Brian Keith. I have seen that movie at least a dozen times (and that is likely an understatement). I remember watching it as a kid and being completely mesmerized by O’Hara’s character, Maggie. This was the…
Lately, I have been a sucker for World War One and World War Two historical fiction. If the description of the book promises a story about strong female friendships, I cannot get it off the shelf fast enough. This recent obsession led me to pick up Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly (one of our April…
Happy Summer! Once again, it’s July and I have yet to make it to the beach. I hope you find time this month to take one of the following books to the beach with you: I’ve Got Sand in All the Wrong Places by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella (available 07/12/16)* Maggie Dove: A Mystery…