by envisionmg | Jul 6, 2022 | Alissa Reviews
Abbi Waxman’s most recent novel, Adult Assembly Required, features some of the same characters seen in her earlier book The Bookish Life of Nina Hill. You do not need to read any of Waxman’s previous books before you read this one (but I am pretty sure that you will...
by envisionmg | Jul 4, 2022 | Charlotte Recommends
Coming in September, Charlotte will be curating a book display on books translated into English. Here are a couple to get you started. The Discomfort of Evening: A Novel by Marieke Lucas Rijnveld, Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison Winner of The International...
by envisionmg | Jul 1, 2022 | Alissa Reviews
The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner The Summer Place is Jennifer Weiner’s newest book, a family drama in which EVERYONE seems to have a secret. And each of these secrets has the potential to greatly alter, if not ruin, someone else’s life. This book tells the story of...
by envisionmg | Jun 29, 2022 | Summer Reading
Whistleblower by Susan Rigetti In 2017, twenty-five-year-old Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing the sexual harassment and retaliation she’d experienced as an entry-level engineer at Uber. The post went viral, leading not only to the ouster of...
by envisionmg | Jun 27, 2022 | Summer Reading
The Drowning Sea: A Maggie d’Arcy Mystery by Sarah Stewart Taylor For the first time in her adult life, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D’arcy is unemployed. No cases to focus on, no leads to investigate, just a whole summer on a remote West Cork...