I keep saying that contemporary fiction isn’t my thing, but I sure have read a lot good contemporary fiction this year. I definitely think I’m coming around to it because this book was delightful. It started out fast and strong and I was always trying to sneak a few minutes here and there to get back to it. This book is about survival, forgiveness, strength, love, resilience, and growing up. Margaret Jacobsen is a beautiful, successful 27 year old MBA graduate about to become engaged to “the love of her life”. On the eve of her engagement her pilot boyfriend…
Posts Written OnJuly 2018
Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
This is a quick, entertaining non-fiction read perfect for those who feel a bit stuck or lost in their lives. I always appreciate an author who will be very candid about their struggles and who also inspires me to live a better life. Rachel Hollis is the CEO of the wildly popular website “The Chic Spot”. She is an incredibly driven, self made woman whose grit and sheer determination have made her the successful woman she is today. In her memoir Rachel is brutally honest about the trials and failures that have helped shape her life paradigm. Told in the…
Lilli De Jong by Janet Benton
Ah, Lilli De Jong. You are a fantastic book. So good that I almost gave you 5 stars. This novel had everything I love in it. Strong, intelligent female protagonist, history, complicated family relationships, an impossible problem, and the will to do the right thing. I am so predictable, but I don’t care, I could read this stuff all day every day. The story begins with our protagonist Lilli only a few short weeks away from giving birth. It’s the late 1800’s in Philadelphia and Lilli is unwed, abandoned by her lover, expelled from her Quaker community, with not much…
Hunted by Meagan Spooner
I am a sucker for all things “Beauty and the Beast”. I will never get tired of it. It has always been my favorite fairy tale I and love reading all the variations authors take on it. That said, this was not my favorite Beauty and the Beast retelling (I think my favorite is still “Beauty” by Robin McKinley). There was so much I appreciated about it but I didn’t connect with it like I had hoped to. I LOVE the idea of this book. I loved Yeva’s (Beauty’s) wanderer nature and yearning for something “more”. She was highly spirited…