Tag Archives: Writing

BOOK REVIEW: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Title: American DirtAuthor: Jeanine CumminsPublication: January 21, 2021Publisher: Flatiron BooksGenre: FictionPages: 387 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of …

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BOOK REVIEW: The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

Title: The UnhoneymoonersAuthor: Christina LaurenPublication: May 14, 2019Publisher: Gallery BooksGenre: Comedic Literature, RomancePages: 434 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Olive is always unlucky: in her career, in love, in…well, everything. Her identical twin sister Ami, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the world. Her meet-cute with her fiancé …

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BOOK REVIEW: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

Title: The Four WindsAuthor: Kristin HannahPublication: February 2, 2021Publisher: St. Martin’s PressGenre: Historical FictionPages: 450 SYNOPSIS (From Goodreads) Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water …

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BOOK REVIEW: The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty

Title: The Husband’s SecretAuthor: Liane MoriartyPublication: June 27, 2017Publisher: BerkleyGenre: Psychological ThrillerPages: 496 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not just the life you …

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BOOK REVIEW: Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Title: Snow Falling on CedarsAuthor: David GutersonPublication: September 12, 1994Publisher:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Genre: Contemporary FictionPages: 482 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is …

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BOOK REVIEW: Regretting You by Colleen Hoover

Title: Regretting YouAuthor: Colleen HooverPublication: December 10, 2019Publisher: MontlakeGenre: Teens, YA FictionPages: 363 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike. Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way …

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BOOK REVIEW: The Last Affair by Margot Hunt

Title: The Last AffairAuthor: Margot HuntPublication: November 26, 2019Publisher: HarlequinGenre:Domestic ThrillerPages: 336 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Love may be blind, but obsession’s a real killer. Nora Holliday is not that kind of woman. Not the kind who has an illicit affair with a married man. But Josh Landon is everything Nora’s …

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BOOK REVIEW: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

Title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie SocietyAuthor: Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie BarrowsPublication: July 29, 2008Publisher: The Dial PressGenre: Historical Fiction, World War IIPages: 322 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) As London emerges from the Second World War, writer Juliet Ashton attempts to find new material for a book. Little does …

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