Everything Here Is Under Control by Emily Adrian | Blackstone Publishing {Book Review}

August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 ~ Genevieve ~ Leave a comment

Everything Here Is Under Control by Emily Adrian

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Amanda is a new mother, and she is breaking. After a fight with her partner, she puts the baby in the car and drives from Queens to her hometown in rural Ohio, where she shows up unannounced on the doorstep of her estranged childhood best friend. Amanda thought that she had left Carrie firmly in the past. After their friendship ended, their lives diverged radically: Carrie had a baby the summer after high school, became a successful tattoo artist, and never escaped Ohio’s conservative grid of close-cut grass. But the … Read more...

What You Wish For by Katherine Center | St. Martin’s Press {Book Review & Giveaway!}

July 29, 2020July 29, 2020 ~ Genevieve ~ 2 Comments

What You Wish For by Katherine Center

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Samantha Casey is a school librarian who loves her job, the kids, and her school family with passion and joy for living. But she wasn’t always that way. Duncan Carpenter is the new school principal who lives by rules and regulations, guided by the knowledge that bad things can happen. But he wasn’t always that way.

And Sam knows it. Because she knew him before―at another school, in a different life. Back then, she loved him―but she was invisible. To him. To everyone. Even to herself. She escaped to a new … Read more...

Eliza Starts a Rumor by Jane L. Rosen | Berkley Publishing {Book Review}

July 22, 2020July 22, 2020 ~ Genevieve ~ Leave a comment

Eliza Starts a Rumor by Jane L. Rosen

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It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. When Eliza Hunt created The Hudson Valley Ladies’ Bulletin Board fifteen years ago she was happily entrenched in her picture-perfect suburban life with her husband and twin preschoolers. Now, with an empty nest and a crippling case of agoraphobia, the once-fun hobby has become her lifeline. So when a rival parenting forum threatens the site’s existence, she doesn’t think twice before fabricating a salacious rumor to spark things up a bit.

It doesn’t take long before that spark becomes a flame.

Across town, … Read more...

The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile | Harper One {Book Review}

July 16, 2020July 16, 2020 ~ Genevieve ~ Leave a comment

The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile

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“After half a decade of research and hundreds of conversations with people around the country, I am convinced we are in the midst of a paradigm shift. That what used to hold us in community no longer works, and that the spiritual offerings of yesteryear no longer help us thrive.”–Casper ter Kuile

What do Soul Cycle, gratitude journals, and tech breaks have in common? For ter Kuile they offer rituals that create the foundation for our modern spiritual lives.

We are in crisis today. Our modern technological society has left … Read more...

June 2020 Book Recap & Ratings

July 15, 2020July 15, 2020 ~ Genevieve ~ Leave a comment

June | Audiobooks & Wireless Headphones

June feels like forever ago but I didn’t want to skip sharing the books I read because while there were some disappoints, there were way more that were just amazing! I shared in my May book recap that I have been struggling to find a new balance with the kids home 24/7…it’s a work in progress for sure, especially for someone who gets easily distracted and doesn’t work well in chaos, LOL.

I did end up listening to quite a few books. I had these great dreams of some afternoon reading during this quarantine … Read more...

2020 Beach Reads |New & Upcoming Book Releases!

June 22, 2020June 24, 2020 ~ Genevieve ~ Leave a comment

Summer Reading

One of my favorite things about this time of this year is thinking about all the summer reading I have planned. While this summer will look much different than years past, the great things about books are that you can read them wherever you are, even if you are “vacationing” in your very own backyard.

Beach Books…

Beach reading means something different for everyone, but for me, it consists of books that are totally engaging but also have enough depth to not be total fluff. I also like to have a mix of genres and topics…a little mystery … Read more...

Always the Last to Know by Kristan Higgins | Berkley Publishing {Book Review}

May 30, 2020May 30, 2020 ~ Genevieve ~ Leave a comment

Always the Last to Know by Kristan Higgins

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Sometimes you have to break a family to fix it.

From New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins, a new novel examining a family at the breaking point in all its messy, difficult, wonderful complexity.

The Frosts are a typical American family. Barb and John, married almost fifty years, are testy and bored with each other…who could blame them after all this time? At least they have their daughters– Barb’s favorite, the perfect, brilliant Juliet; and John’s darling, the free-spirited Sadie. The girls themselves couldn’t be more different, but at … Read more...

How to be a Person by Catherine Newman | Storey Publishing {Book Review}

May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 ~ Genevieve ~ Leave a comment

How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn before You’re Grown Up

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For the kid who leaves a wet towel wadded up on the floor or forgets to put a new roll on the toilet-paper thingy, humorous writer and etiquette columnist Catherine Newman has created the ultimate guidebook to becoming a person whom everyone will like being around more. Jam-packed with tips, tricks, and skills — all illustrated in an irresistible graphic novel–style — this book shows kids just how easy it is to free themselves from parental nagging and become more dependable … Read more...