Erica’s Holiday Romance Roundup
Don’t feel like facing Black Friday crowds? Erica’s Holiday Fiction Roundup offers four great reasons to stay in and read.
Andrea’s Pick of the Week: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
With its rich descriptions of western Virginia, characters you will grow to love or hate, and a propulsive plot, Demon Copperhead is one of the best books I’ve read this year.
Natalie’s Pick of the Week: How To Speak Whale: A Voyage Into the Future of Animal Communication by Tom Mustill
While there’s still a long way to go before we’re conversing with animals, scientists are hard at work at making the possibility a reality.
Karen’s Pick of the Week: The House in the Orchard by Elizabeth Brooks
Reading The House in the Orchard by Elizabeth Brooks took me back to two of my favorite classics. Maude, a character you will both love and hate, is a flawed heroine reminiscent of both Estella Havisham from Dickens’ Great Expectations and Bronte’s Jane Eyre. This Gothic tale of tragedy and transformation has intense emotion, terror, pleasure, death, romance, and eerie ghostly…
Jo’s Pick of the Week: The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
Jamie Ford movingly explores the fascinating premise that trauma can be passed down from generation to generation in his fourth novel, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy. Afong Moy was the first Chinese woman known to set foot on American soil in 1836. She was forced to entertain on the stage as “The Chinese Lady.”…
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