By: Tananarive Due It’s 1950, and 12 year told Robbie Stephens Jr., a black boy, is sentenced to 6 months at a boys school, a reformatory, for kicking the son of a well known wealthy landowner, who happens to be white, in defense of his sister, Grace. At the Reformatory, Robbie is learning quickly howContinue reading “The Reformatory”
Tag Archives: Literary Fiction
Broken Country
By: Clare Leslie Hall “But the only thing that matters is finding the right person to spend the rest of your life with. However you get there.” Beth and her husband Frank live a quiet live on a farm. And even though they have experienced tragedy, as long as their past stays there, they areContinue reading “Broken Country”
The God of the Woods
By: Liz Moore “To panic….was to make an enemy of the forest. To stay calm was to be its friend.” At Camp Emerson in 1975, Barbara Van Laar goes missing. But she’s not just anyone, she’s the daughter of the family that owns the camp, and the sister of the boy that went missing beforeContinue reading “The God of the Woods”
The Reading List
By: Sara Nisha Adams “Please try to remember that books aren’t always an escape; sometimes book teach us things. They show us the world; they don’t hide it.” Mukesh is a widower who is lonely. He shops every Wednesday, worries about his granddaughter Priya, and goes to Temple. He just misses his wife. Aleisha isContinue reading “The Reading List”
Remarkably Bright Creatures
By: Shelby Van Pelt “Humans. For the most part, you are dull and blundering. But, occasionally, you can be remarkably bright creatures.” I’m not going to lie, I was not looking forward to reading this book. I actually had zero interest in reading it. But, my book club picked it for our October reads soContinue reading “Remarkably Bright Creatures”
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
By: Fannie Flagg About the Book (From Wikipedia) Set in Alabama, it weaves together the past and the present through the blossoming friendship between Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged housewife, and Ninny Threadgoode, an elderly woman who lives in a nursing home. Every week Evelyn visits Ninny, who recounts stories of her youth in Whistle Stop,Continue reading “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe”
Under the Whispering Door
By: TJ Klune “It’s never enough, is it? Time. We always think we have so much of it, but when it really counts, we don’t have enough at all.” I feel like I am probably the last person in the world to read this book, and to read this author. I had heard of thisContinue reading “Under the Whispering Door”
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