Gigi, Listening is the story of a girl who falls in love with the voice of an audiobook narrator and determines he is The One. Naturally, her life’s journey takes a lot of twists and turns as she pursues her fantasy man. Our story starts with Gigi’s birthday party during book club. Her friends hand…
The One and Only was a New York Times #1 bestseller and deservedly so. It’s the story of thirty-three-year-old sports reporter Shea Rigsby and her gradual realization that her lifelong hero-worship of football coach Clive Carter might go deeper than friendship. However, he’s twenty-two years older, is mourning the recent loss of his wife, and…
What a fascinating mixed bag of a book this is. The Half of It is a warm-hearted dramady for grown-ups who have been around the block and know that the block stretches many more miles beyond where it began. It’s fascinating in its imperfections, but some organizational choices put this one below a DIK for…
Two Wars and a Wedding is a loose prequel to Lauren Willig’s delightful Band of Sisters. This epic tells us the backstory of Dr. Ava Stringfellow and Betsy Rutherford, née Hayes, who led the Smith College Relief Unit that was the focus of that novel. It’s an interesting look at how history often repeats itself…
Rock and roll queen Susanna Hoffs makes her debut as a fiction writer with the gutsy, tough, romantic and engaging This Bird Has Flown, all about a one-hit wonder who finds a chance at redemption – both romance and career wise – on a flight to England. At thirty-three, Jane Start is washed up. Recently…
Well, this is a pretty charmer. I already knew Lucy Gilmore was talented, but The Lonely Hearts Book Club proves that she’s talented in the women’s fiction arena as well. Lonely, meek librarian Sloane Parker has bonded with crusty octogenarian Arthur McLachlann, an imperious bibliophile, over their daily mutual rejoinders and a title game she’s…
The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise is a character-driven, fun dramedy about an elderly woman who’s not ready to throw in the towel and a twenty-year-old who has no idea where her life is going. Eighty-four-year-old Louise Wilt is elderly, but definitely not dead. She’s living happily independently when a slip and fall…
In Two Wars and a Wedding, Lauren Willig explores two wars which don’t get a ton of attention in fiction – the Greco-Turkish war of 1896 and the Spanish American War. Both are seen from the PoV of a single woman who finds herself nursing troops while also fostering her dreams of being an archeologist….
I had no experience with author Brianna Labuskes when I picked up The Librarian of Burned Books, but I found the novel’s subject matter intriguing. Covering an underutilized piece of WWII history, the story shows three heroines who fight for something that is doubtless dear to most AAR readers’ hearts – the freedom to write,…
While Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes is a bit slow to start, the two main characters are so real and their individual situations so unfortunate, you simply need to keep reading to see what happens next. Throw in Moyes’ excellent writing and I was thoroughly entertained. Samantha – Sam – Kent is experiencing a…
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