Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Thank you to Atria Books for the opportunity to preview this book and provide an early review.

Jennifer Weiner, this is a shift from your other books and I like it - I like it a lot!

Mrs. Everything is a story of sisterhood, but also two strong individual stories. Jo and Bethie (at first I wondered if I had stumbled into a Little Women revamp) are two women who travel very different journeys over their lifetime - sisters who are very different but come from the same place and are thus bound together by love. The book covers an interesting arc of time and we see a lot of changes in treatment of women, sexuality, identity...

Trust me, you're going to want to read this. I recommend a reading binge over a weekend with some tea or wine and a lap blanket.


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Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Thank you to Simon and Schuster for providing me with an Advanced Reader's Edition of this fabulous novel.

The adjective that keeps coming to mind when I think about how this book made me feel is "comfortable." I'm not 10% satisfied with that, but it is true that I settled in to these characters and this story and just felt...comfortable. That's not to say that sad things, terrible things and melancholy aren't scattered throughout the pages. But the pages are filled with B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L sentences, some I needed to read a few times because they were lovely.

I'm not great at giving a synopsis, so I'll just say that this is about two families and decades of life interwoven between them.

I really loved it.

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Becoming by Michelle Obama
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Let’s invite one another in.”
I couldn’t love this, or her, more.

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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I am SO glad that I chose the audio format of this book. What an incredible job the cast of narrators did! This wasn't a bunch of people reading the book aloud -- it was truly a performance. The dialogue was emotional, it was conversational, it really sounded like the interview it was supposed to be.

This is the story of "Daisy Jones & The Six," a 1970's-era rock band. The interviews chronicle the band member's beginnings, early careers and how they came to be recording music together. It's also several love stories told in an compelling, emotional, heartbreaking and suspenseful way.

Rumor has it this will be a mini-series...as excited as I am for that, I can see these characters in my mind's eye and like them just that way. The only thing I want is a sequel.

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