Emily is a young woman, in her early thirties who is helping her grandmother pack up the family farm. Her grandmother had sold the farm like most people in the area to developers. It is in her packing that she discovers a secret about her father, he had been married before he married her mother. We then travel back in time to see her father, Jack, and Libbie’s story. Jack and Libbie are opposites in town. Libbie lives on the lake in town where all […]
Wild
I had thought about picking up this book after the movie came out. I’m always one who wants to read the book before seeing the movie, and I had heard good things about the movie. However, I never really got around to it, until now. Wild is based in the authors travels on the Pacific Crest Trail. This is a trail that goes from Mexico to Canada. Cheryl hikes a good portion of it, starting in the Mojave desert. What caused Cheryl to want to […]
Dear Nobody
Mary Rose grew up in the 1990s. A time where the book reminds you that you documented your life in a diary instead of on social media. In Dear Nobody, we read from Mary Rose’s diary, in which she titles each entry with “Dear Nobody.” In her diary, we see her struggle with illness, abuse, arrests, addiction to alcohol and drugs, and rape. Through the diary, we see Mary Rose struggle with relationships. After moving to a new town, she struggles to make new friends. […]
Take Me With You
August Shroeder is trying to complete a trip to Yellowstone that he had planned to take with his nineteen year old son, that is before his sun passed away. Instead of making the trip with his son, he is taking the trip with his son’s ashes. Unfortunately, he runs into problems right away, and he ends up at a mechanics to fix his vehicle. It now looks like this trip that he had been saving for and planned on taking, wasn’t going to happen. With the […]