reading and relaxing in Seattle
On the day that twins Seraphine and Danny were born, their mother committed suicide by throwing herself from the seaside cliffs at their family’s estate, Summerbourne. Years later, after the recent death of her father, Seraphine is going through his papers and finds a photo taken on the day she and Read the Post
Anya St. Clair has the job of her dreams as a fashion editor at La Vie. Now she just needs the best friend of her dreams. Sarah Taft is blonde, fashionable, and everything that Anya wants to be and Anya will stop at nothing to be Sarah’s best friend even if she has to kill the Read the Post
Amber Reynolds wakes up in the hospital and realizes that while she can hear everything around her, she cannot see and cannot move. From people going in and out of her room, she determines she is in a coma but has no memory of how she got there. Was it something to do with her sister Claire who Read the Post
I’m not going to lie. I put this book on hold because I wanted to read it after seeing the movie that came out this year starring Jennifer Lawrence. I was surprised at how popular this book and its sequels are - there was a really long hold time at the library. I put the book on hold when the movie Read the Post
Anna Johnson's parents committed suicide last year. Her dad jumped off a cliff and several months later, her mother jumped off the same cliff. Anna has been struggling to go on when, on the anniversary of her mother's death, she receives a card in the mail that suggests her mother did not commit Read the Post
The Girl Before was my bookclub's latest book read and I have to say I was not a fan. Everyone else seemed to like it, but I thought this book was terribly boring. Clara’s life is devastated in an instant – the police knock down her door and invade her house, arrest her husband Glen, and take her Read the Post
Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a “mockumentary” about mermaids. All contact was lost and when the ship was finally located, it was deserted. The only sign of the crew was bits of found footage that showed the crew being slaughtered by some sort of Read the Post
Memory Man was my book club’s latest pick. Everyone loved the book; it was a great read. After being violently injured in a football game, Amos Decker was left with an unbelievable side effect – a photographic memory that ensures he will never forget anything. It’s that memory that made him a Read the Post
From a young age, Callie has been obsessed with her twin sister Tilda. Callie spends her time watching and observing as Tilda grows up to be an actress while Callie spends her days working in a bookstore. When Tilda invites Callie over to meet her new boyfriend Felix, Callie is struck by how neat, Read the Post
Nightblind is the next book in the Dark Iceland series and takes place 5 years after the events of Snowblind. Ari Thór Arason is a policeman in the town of Siglufjörður, a remote fishing village in Northern Iceland. His old partner has since moved south to Reykjavik and a new policeman has taken his Read the Post
