What I Read Last Week:

Title: Snowflakes over Moondance Cottage

Authors: Rosie Green

Immediate Thoughts: Encouraging, warm, and emotive!

Rating: 8.5/10

Publication Date: November 15, 2019

Title: The Little Bookshop on the Seine 

Authors: Rebecca Raisin

Immediate Thoughts: Cosy, heartwarming, and sweet!

Rating: 8.5/10

Publication Date: January 7, 2020

Title: Instacrush (Rookie Rebels #2)

Authors: Kate Meader

Immediate Thoughts: Spicy, romantic, and downright addictive!

Rating: 10/10

Publication Date: December 10, 2019

Title: The Room on Rue Amélie

Authors: Kristin Hamel

Immediate Thoughts: Powerful, moving, and inspiring!

Rating: 9/10

Publication Date: March 27, 2018

What I’m Currently Reading:

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe’s life is ever the same.

Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran–and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.

As Joe writes about Carl’s life, especially Carl’s valor in Vietnam, he cannot reconcile the heroism of the soldier with the despicable acts of the convict. Joe, along with his skeptical female neighbor, throws himself into uncovering the truth, but he is hamstrung in his efforts by having to deal with his dangerously dysfunctional mother, the guilt of leaving his autistic brother vulnerable, and a haunting childhood memory. 

Thread by thread, Joe unravels the tapestry of Carl’s conviction. But as he and Lila dig deeper into the circumstances of the crime, the stakes grow higher. Will Joe discover the truth before it’s too late to escape the fallout?

What I’m Reading Next:

An astonishing novel from the acclaimed author of Keepsakethat pushes the boundaries of storytelling. At turns shocking, provocative, and heart-wrenching, and inspired by a true story The Whole Golden World forces us to ask the question “How well do we really know our children?”

To the outside Dinah and Joe have a perfect family-three lovely children, a beautiful home, and a café that’s finally taking off. But their world is rocked when it’s discovered that their oldest daughter, 17-year-old Morgan is having an affair with her married teacher, TJ Hill.

Their town rocks with the scandal. When the case goes to trial, the family is torn further apart when Morgan sides not with her parents-as a manipulated teenage girl; but with TJ himself-as a woman who loves a 30-year-old man.

Told from the perspectives of Morgan, Dinah, and TJ’s wife, Rain, this is an unforgettable story that fully explores the surprising, even shocking, events that change the lives of two families.