Whew! Seldom has there been a book where I have cried on and off throughout the entire book but..........................this was a first. Some may think it's a sappy kind of book but I really enjoyed reading it, sappy or not. I spent most of the book wanting the husband to get hit by a bus hea...
The story of the siege of Leningrad was very descriptive, tragic and depressing. But I feel it was historially important to hear this tale. The current story about the two bitchy sisters with dirty mouths and their cold, unloving mother was equally depressing but was totally unimportant and pre...
I just read this story. Oddly enough, I started it w/o reading the synopsis so didn't realize what it was going to be about. My mother passed away a few months ago and this really hit home for me. One of the last things she told me was not to worry, she's going to live to play with her grand chil...
This was a very good short story. I got it free on my Kindle, which makes it even better. However, if I had read that it was about a child that goes missing, I might not have read it. But everything works out in the end. It's a tearjerker. One quote that stood out to me was "I didn't know then th...
Between Sisters by Kristin Hannah, is another heartwarming story told by this truly phenomenal author! I have read most of Hannah's books, and I really enjoy her storytelling ability. Hannah truly draws readers in and never lets them go until the novel is over – IT’S GREAT! I loved this book and...
Uggg....Kristin Hannah. I thought I would give her another chance. I have read books by her that have drawn me in, that have been well written and beautiful (Firefly Lane, Winter Garden), books that made me think she could really write.And then I read books written by her that made me cringe a...
This is one of the soft-reads I have chosen as in-betweener, to escape a little from the heavy-handed, often depressing, other books I love to indulge in. It is a well-constructed, intriguing story that kept me going forward despite the obvious clues of the outcome. There even might have been qui...
Nora Bridge had what appeared to be the American dream – a devoted husband, two loving daughters, and a quaint beachhouse on Summer Island. Yet one day she turned her back on them all and vanished into thin air. A decade later her youngest daughter Ruby finds herself grappling with the heartbrea...