★★★☆☆ Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica This suspenseful thriller immerses us in the cases of Shelby Tebow, Meredith Dickey, and her six-year-old daughter Delilah, who go missing from a quiet town. Shelby disappears after going for a late-night run. Shortly after, Delilah and Meredith vanish. Delilah returns eleven years after the disappearances, reigniting interest … Continue reading Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
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Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
★★★☆☆ Though living worlds apart, Augustine, an astronomer living alone in the Arctic Circle in his twilight years, and Sully, an astronaut who left her young daughter to embark on a two-year mission to Jupiter, have more in common than their love of the stars.
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
★★★★☆ Elaine Aron is a leading expert on highly sensitive persons (HSPs) and her book is an excellent resource for understanding more about sensitivity, a trait that’s often misunderstood, and for providing strategies on how HSPs can use their sensitive natures to thrive.
How to Know a Person by David Brooks
★★★★☆ There’s a loneliness epidemic in America, and it’s having devastating consequences. I see the tragic impact that feeling isolated and misunderstood is having on college students in my daily work on a college campus. I thought How to Know a Person might give me some insight into how I could take steps in my own life to address this societal health crisis.
The Painter by Peter Heller
★★★★☆ A passionate artist, sensitive yet flawed father, detached lover, and contemplative fisherman with a faulty moral compass and an angry streak, Jim Stegner is a multidimensional man. These varied – and sometimes contradictory – elements of Jim’s personality make him a memorable character.
The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
★★★☆☆ Rachel Hawkins writes good escapist thrillers. Reckless Girls was deliciously wicked, and her Southern Gothic novel, The Wife Upstairs, had some fun twists. So, when I saw she had a new book, The Villa, I decided to check it out.
Celine by Peter Heller
★★★★☆ Celine Watkins is a 68-year-old private investigator who specializes in helping to reunite families. Gabriela Lamont, a fellow Sarah Lawrence alumna, hires Celine to find out what happened when her father, a National Geographic photographer, mysteriously disappeared twenty years before. The novel delves into Celine’s past as much as it focuses on the present-day investigation into why Paul Lamont vanished from the Wyoming wilderness.
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
★★★★☆ Our society glorifies those who ultra-specialize in a field and celebrates them as smarter or more talented than others. We tend to believe a wrist surgeon is better and more qualified to operate on our carpal tunnel than a general surgeon. Using data and the personal stories of musicians and athletes, such as Tiger Woods, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein tackles why this conventional wisdom isn’t necessarily true.
November 9 by Colleen Hoover
★★★☆☆ Fallon and Ben meet on November 9th, the day before Fallon is scheduled to move from Los Angeles to New York City. Despite an instant connection, they are both in a place, especially Fallon, where it doesn’t make sense to be together. The two hatch a plan to go “no contact” except for reuniting on the anniversary of the day they met for the next five years.
Loathe to Love You by Ali Hazelwood
★★★★☆ Loathe to Love You is a collection of 3 romance novellas, each featuring a brilliant young, single woman in STEM who meets and falls in love with a guy in some variation on the enemies-to-lovers trope. Despite the formulaic nature of these stories, the collection worked for me.