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Apples Never Fall

When Dreams Die Author: Liana Moriarty I recently discovered, and fell in love with, Liane Moriarty. She has a way of stepping into normal life situations and unraveling the yearnings and failings of the heart, peeling back the layers of pretense to reveal the raw heart of a character. In Apples Never Fall, Stan and Joy appear to have the perfect marriage, at least to those on the outside. Before retiring, they ran a successful tennis academy. Tennis – the battling on the courts, the challenges and last-minute skill-defying successes, the dreams of Wimbledon – shaped their lives and dreams and [...]

Frances Carden2024-12-08T15:13:49-07:00December 8th, 2024|Tags: book review, drama, fiction, read, reading|

Great Gimmelmans, The

Coming-of-Age as a Bank Robber Author: Lee Matthew Goldberg In this high-speed, crime-ridden, coming-of-age-tale, twelve-year-old Aaron Gimmelman watches his family lose everything, go on the run, and turn into a group of murderous bank-robbers. The real kicker? Aaron is the sensible member of the family, the only realist in the disturbed bunch, and he started his own family down this road of crime. It begins with the stock crash of ’87. Formerly affluent, high-roller Barry Gimmelman (the father) is suddenly broke. Everything was bought through debt, through promises, through the assurance that the future held success. It’s all going back now. [...]

Frances Carden2023-12-14T19:36:05-07:00December 14th, 2023|Tags: book review, crime, drama, read, reading, thriller|

Midnight Library, The

Second Chances And Supernatural Libraries Author: Matt Haig Nora Seed is ready to die. There is nothing left but to take too many pills, lie down in her lonely apartment, die, and be forgotten. So, when Nora awakens from her death sleep to find herself alone in a giant library, she is perplexed. In this unstable library with its rows after rows of green books, she has a final chance to see the ramifications of every decision, the endless different lives that could have been, that unspool from small and large changes. If she likes one of these lives, she [...]

Frances Carden2023-02-11T13:06:02-07:00February 11th, 2023|Tags: book review, drama, read, reading|