{Image Via} Still Life by Christa Parrish begins with an unthinkable tragedy that leaves one of the main characters, Ava, grasping at the tattered threads of her new life, while Katherine, the other protagonist, is left in the wake of the…
{EE} Reads: Tidings of Comfort and Joy
{Image Via} I think it’s only fitting to review a Christmas book for the week of the highly anticipated holiday! Tidings of Comfort and Joy by T. Davis Bunn (who writes many, many other books I have enjoyed) is a…
{EE} Reads: Bloom
{Image Via} Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected is a rich, breathtakingly beautiful, achingly honest memoir written by a mother who finds out her second daughter has Down Syndrome on the day her daughter is born. Kelle Hampton shares her story with raw emotion,…
{EE} Reads: The Martian
The Martian is another bestseller that has been made into a movie, similar to The Book Thief. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from this book as I heard mixed reviews about the movie from various people. However, I haven’t seen…
{EE} Reads: The Glass Castle
{Image Via} I haven’t read many memoirs, but I love reading stories of all kinds and it’s especially riveting, I think, to read someone’s life story. Jeanette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, came highly recommended, and it definitely did not disappoint….
{EE} Reads: The Life Intended
{Image Via} It is hard to know where to begin with this book, even with it fresh in my mind. Despite it being a fictional account, the questions the heroine, Kate, wrestles with are ones to which we all can…
{EE} Reads: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
Before I was finally able to check this book out from my local library — I had received many recommendations for it. As a pretty off the charts introvert (ISFJ for those of you who appreciate “official” personality types 🙂…
Book Review: The Selection Series
The Selection series — The Selection, The Elite, The One — (there is also The Heir, which I am still waiting to read, and an unnamed fifth book that is supposedly coming soon) written by Kiera Cass has been described as…
