"Because the other way wasn't working. The waking up just to get the day over with until it was time for bed. The grinding it out was a disgrace, an affront to the honor and long shot of being alive at all." Today Will Be Different is exactly the book I needed to read! The [...]
"You've got to make your own dreams happen, Lucy," Ty says. "Sounds a lot like you're helping to make someone else's dreams happen." The Balance Project is such a fun read! Very reminiscent of The Devil Wears Prada and The Nanny Diaries, The Balance Project is about the life of a working woman who earnestly [...]
"Was it impossible to hide who you really were forever?" What an incredible book! Blade's Edge is such a phenomenal story. A fantasy world built with similarities to feudal Japan, but written with such intensity that it mirrors a dystopian novel. I was immediately swept into the enormity of this world and immersed in the [...]
"The soul of the fairy is its evanescence. Its charm is the eternal doubt, rose-tinted with the shadow of a hope. But the thrill is all in ourselves." The Cottingley Secret is part historical novel, part contemporary novel, where the two stories intersect and meet together in the end. In 1917, two girls brought together [...]
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." Nancy wants nothing more than to forget her life in San Diego. Even more, she wants to forget why her and her family had to move to Hawaii in the first place. Meeting Ana, pronounced On-a, gives her a chance [...]
"It was interesting that fury and fear could look so much the same." Truly Madly Guilty is a book that dug it's way deep under my skin and planted itself firmly in my heart. It explores the idea of what can happen on an ordinary day. A day where a group of adults, neighbors and [...]
"Stories are like that; they seek to unravel." The Guineveres is a haunting coming of age story told by Vere, one of four Guineveres living in a convent, being raised by nuns. These four girls aren't the only girls there, but they are all Guineveres, and so they form an unspoken bond through their shared [...]
"Sugar is the devil, you know." Janey Sweet finds herself in the midst of a strange midlife crisis. Strange because rather than developing on it's own, her crisis is thrust upon her by her boss and business partner. Over breakfast Beau breaks the news that Janey is fat: the mother of all F*words to Beau, [...]
"Sometimes there's a fine line between romantic and sinister." I finished White Bodies yesterday and I am still reeling! The ending is so unexpected, the twist so psychologically deviant, it hits you like a sucker punch. As far as psychological suspense novels go, this is one wild ride! Tilda and Callie are twin sisters. As [...]
"We all have our own magnificent prisons, even the queen, I'd venture." I love how fitting this quote is for both narrators in The Address. Each woman, separated by a hundred years, is trapped in a prison unique to them. Sara, a woman in the 1880's, running a hotel in England before being hired to [...]
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