A funny, epistolary-style narrative listening in on the citizens of a small town intentionally and unintentionally revealing too much during an uninterrupted town forum A sinkhole in a football field, the recent death of a beloved crossing guard, an elementary school renaming to erase the memory of a Nazi sympathizer. These and other local issues […]
The opening pages of Land by Maggie O’Farrell drop the reader onto a windswept Atlantic peninsula. The year is 1865, the wind is salted and ceaseless, and a ten-year-old boy named Liam stands holding the end of a surveying chain while his father, Tomás, measures the distance between two drumlins. Twenty years after the Great […]
The setting is a maternity home, Wellwood Home, in 1970 Florida. Young women are sent there by their families to… The post Witchcraft for Wayward Girls appeared first on She Reads Everything.
The Celestial Omnibus by E. M. Forster is part of The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories, a collection of short stories first published in 1911. Together with the collection The Eternal Moment it forms part of Forster’s Collected Short Stories. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost […]
A darkly evocative, psychologically rich tale about what happens when the pursuit of power erodes the self Prepare to be pulled into a powerful story where ambition rots into obsession and where intimacy is commanded rather than given in The Moonscorn Mandate. Sahar Radosz’s novel is a dark, eroticized psychological fantasy with disturbing undertones, where […]
Detroit hums beneath the smokestacks of 1927, and Ruta Sepetys returns to her birthplace with a story hiding in plain sight for a century. A Fortune of Sand by Ruta Sepetys moves the Lithuanian-American novelist away from the European stages of her earlier work and plants her firmly in the Motor City, swapping deportation trains […]
Once You’re Mine by Morgan Bridges on August 20, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Romance / Billionaires, Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / New Adult, Fiction / Romance / Suspense Pages: 320 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads The Tormentor: Calista belongs to me… she just doesn’t know it. The first time we […]
Everybody loves a literary murder mystery, 10 Questions on famous murder mystery books and authors. Enjoy The Murderous Book Quiz! This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. The Murderous Book Quiz QUIZ START Books Featured in the Quiz Click on the image to Buy on […]
Synopsis: A time travel mystery. Prominent archaeologist Henri Rutherford and his young protégé discover an ancient skeleton clutching a mysterious device. They have no idea what it is or where it came from. When they start repeating the same day over and over again they know they have something that could change the world–for better […]
Title: When Attention Settles Author: Piyush Bhatnagar Genre: Spiritual nonfiction In When Attention Settles, Piyush Bhatnagar draws our attention to the very matter of attention itself. He carefully demonstrates how when we consume too much of our time, effort, energy, and focus on attention, we complicate life with added strain. By learning more… […]