This book makes it official. Geraldine Brooks is one of my favorite authors. She writes with the quality of a classic author and is a beautiful storyteller. This was my second Brook’s novel I’ve read and both times I have been left with such a satisfied sentiment that I feel like I […]
This 619 page novel is Meyer’s first adult fiction. Following the success of her teen series, Twilight, she heads in another direction of imaginary and unique love affairs. The Host is a story about the difficult and exhausting relationship between the alien invader, Wanderer, and her host body, Melanie. Mixed in there […]
This novel by Chevalier is a New York Times Bestseller. Even though it was published in 1999, the story is successful at pulling the reader back into the 17th century. Inspired by the famous painting of Vermeer, this fictional story adds layers of beauty and reality to the mysterious face. The artistic […]
The Bastard is the first of the American Bicentennial Series written by John Jakes in the 1970’s. It is a historical fiction about a french boy who finds out he is the illegitimate son of an English nobleman. After finding impossible barriers to claiming his inheritance in England, he flees to the American […]