FEEL FREE (MARCH 2018)

If you're a fan of Zadie Smith, now you can see what's really going on in her head! These essays range from Smith's thoughts on everything from interviews with pop culture icons, to her views on films, music, works of art and so much more. Yes, this is an essay collection but one you won't want to miss....

Feel Free

By Zadie Smith

It seems that nothing is beyond the purview of Smith, who, between acclaimed novels, publishes must-read essays on Brexit, her mother's fascination with toilets, Justin Bieber, Jordan Peele's Get Out, and 27 other subjects, curated in this provocative collection.

— Natalie Beach

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/book/best-books-to-read-march-2018-feel-free#ixzz58MOq237b

AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE (March 2018)

All the critics praised this book. "So many layers and messages". Of course it's about a marriage which leads to family... which leads to angst....which leads to heart-wrenching characters. In this case it's an emotional journey that takes an in depth look at a marriage that has been dealt a severe blow. Suspenseful and beautifully written it's an engaging and enlightening story.

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

The quietly devastating effects of mass incarceration hit one recently married couple hard in Tayari Jones’s moving new novel An American Marriage. Roy and Celestial are upwardly mobile Southerners considering expanding their family when Roy is arrested and imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. The rest of the novel explores the fallout, through letters and deftly-handled switches in points of view. Though it’s a heavy subject, Jones wields a light hand, imbuing Roy, Celestial and their friends and family with nuance and sympathy. What could have been an overwrought, didactic allegory about the prison industrial complex, is instead a subtle, powerful portrayal of ordinary Americans and the human costs of unjust systems. 

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SUNBURN (MARCH 2018)

"Atmospheric" is the term reviewers have used to set the scene for Lippman's new novel. That immediately commands my attention...This sounds like a captivating story..Don't miss it! According to several blog readers it's a must read....

SUNBURN by Laura Lippman (Psychological Thriller)
Audiobook available, read by Susan Bennett
They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. 
Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he’s also passing through. 
Yet she stays and he stays --- drawn to this mysterious redhead 
whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. Over the course
 of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to 
a steamy, inexorable affair. 

Still, each holds something back from the other --- dangerous
 lethal, secrets. Then someone dies. Was it an accident, 
or part of a plan? By now, Adam and Polly are so ensnared in each
 other’s lives and lies that neither one knows how to get away --- 
or even if they want to. Is their love strong enough to withstand
 the truth, or will it ultimately destroy them? Reviewed by Ray Palen.

- Click here to read more about the book.

Thankyou  Bookreporter.com for this review.

IT TOOK A BOOK (MARCH 2018)

I'm sort of back blogging again.. so many of you reached out, I felt the time had come to stop shopping for our new digs and concentrate on my true passion...Books! And it's a lot cheaper!

A friend recommended PACHINKO by Min Jin Lee and I was hooked! This is an epic novel spanning 500 pages of storytelling written in a simple evocative writing style. No wonder it was a National Book Award Finalist.

Without giving away too much,  it's focus is four generations of a Korean family and all the complicated relationshops and struggles that ensue.

Take this book on your next vacation or staycation ....or anywhere!  I loved it...It made me realize that reading is the true escape!