Goodreads Synopsis Achilles, “the best of all the Greeks,” son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an
Goodreads Synopsis In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom
Goodreads Synopsis Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first assignment is to read and report on Sweet Blasphemy, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara. Ella is mesmerized by his tale of Shams’s search for Rumi and the
The long gap in my blog postings marks a hiatus. I’ve been busy, or perhaps more accurately, I’ve been diligently focusing on my life. Additional responsibilities have taken up most of my time. I had long forgotten that I was once an avid reader—I used to devour around 20-30 books a year, diligently reviewing and
TITLE: AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE AUTHOR: TAYARI JONES GENRE: DOMESTIC FICTION GOODREADS SYNOPSIS: Newlyweds, Celestial and Roy, are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. They are settling into the routine of their life together when
