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Posts Tagged Books I love

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

By Jean Brashear on October 31, 2019   /   Books I Love (Book Recommendations)   /   Leave a comment
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

I won’t get over Mateo and Rufus anytime soon. I read this at my granddaughter’s recommendation, and the title made me nervous because I’m all about happy endings. Regardless, I’m really glad I read this book and cannot salute Adam Silvera enough for a remarkable, haunting, sweet,

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The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

By Jean Brashear on September 5, 2019   /   Books I Love (Book Recommendations)   /   Leave a comment
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

I have no idea why I took so long to try this book, since I’ve known of it for years, but I’m so very glad I finally did. A trulyremarkable, unforgettable story. The writing is superb, the storyline unique and original, the world-building complex and impressive. A

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How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry

By Jean Brashear on July 11, 2019   /   Books I Love (Book Recommendations)   /   Leave a comment
How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry

Don’t we all, as avid readers, love the notion of living in a bookstore? This story is eminently sigh-worthy, a lovely, lovely tale of the lives changed and loves found in a bookshop founded years before by the man who’s the center of the story, even if

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The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

By Jean Brashear on April 11, 2019   /   Books I Love (Book Recommendations)   /   Leave a comment
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

This book is as powerful–maybe more so–than when I first read it some years back. The pain, the beauty, the gorgeous prose, the characters who leap to life…a very rare few characters are as unforgettable, heart-breaking and inspiring as Victoria Jones. It’s one of the books that

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Faithful by Alice Hoffman

By Jean Brashear on March 14, 2019   /   Books I Love (Book Recommendations)   /   Leave a comment
Faithful by Alice Hoffman

Shelby is a character, by turns tragic and eccentric and touching, I’ll never forget. A remarkable story of a character I wasn’t at all sure would get her happy ending (her characters sometimes don’t!) but I was rooting for her and her merry cast of characters, every

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