A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler My rating: 4 of 5 stars ‘It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon…’ This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their motherContinue reading “A Spool of Blue Thread – A Review”
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Elizabeth is Missing – A Review
Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey My rating: 4 of 5 stars In this darkly riveting debut novel—a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also a heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging—an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared, and her searchContinue reading “Elizabeth is Missing – A Review”
Where the Forest Meets the Stars – A Review
After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by theContinue reading “Where the Forest Meets the Stars – A Review”