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I just received an order from Book Outlet and wanted to share the newest books on my nightstand! Disclaimer: this box wasn’t just for me! My big boys bought a book each and I also found two books for Easter baskets. So I’m only half-breaking my promise from January, hah! P.S. If you go through this link, you’ll get a $10 off coupon towards your first Book Outlet order of $25 or more.
THE DARK TOWER AND OTHER STORIES
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C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity is on my list to read this year and I’d really like to collect this particular edition of his works. So when I saw The Dark Tower and Other Stories for less than $5, I snatched it up. The reviews I’ve read about this book are mixed and it’s definitely outside my genre comfort zone. We’ll see!
The description: This collection of futuristic fiction includes a breathtaking science fiction story written early in his career in which Cambridge intellectuals witness the breach of space-time through a chronoscope – a telescope that looks not just into another world, but into another time.
THE LIKENESS
Amazon | Book Outlet (I can’t find it on the website now, so I must have gotten one of the last copies!)
I read In the Woods last month and Hannah said the second book was better and her favorite. I’m anxious to read it and see if I like it enough to continue on with the series.
The description: In the “compellingˮ (The Boston Globe) and “pitch perfectˮ (Entertainment Weekly) follow-up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods, itʼs six months later and Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad with no plans to go back—until an urgent telephone call summons her to a grisly crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. Cassie must discover not only who killed this girl, but, more important, who was this girl?
THE TWO-FAMILY HOUSE
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This one has been on my Goodreads to-read list for a few years. I don’t know too much about it, but I generally like to go into books that way. Just started it yesterday and so far, so good!
The description: Brooklyn, 1947: In the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born, minutes apart. The mothers are sisters by marriage: dutiful, quiet Rose, who wants nothing more than to please her difficult husband; and warm, generous Helen, the exhausted mother of four rambunctious boys who seem to need her less and less each day. Raising their families side by side, supporting one another, Rose and Helen share an impenetrable bond forged before and during that dramatic winter night.
When the storm passes, life seems to return to normal; but as the years progress, small cracks start to appear and the once deep friendship between the two women begins to unravel. No one knows why, and no one can stop it. One misguided choice; one moment of tragedy. Heartbreak wars with happiness and almost, but not quite, wins. Moving and evocative, Lynda Cohen Loigman’s debut novel The Two-Family House is a heart-wrenching, gripping multigenerational story, woven around the deepest of secrets.
BEFORE THE FALL
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Another one from my Goodreads TBR list.
The description: On a foggy summer night, eleven people–ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter–depart Martha’s Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are the painter Scott Burroughs and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul’s family.
Was it by chance that so many influential people perished? Or was something more sinister at work? A storm of media attention brings Scott fame that quickly morphs into notoriety and accusations, and he scrambles to salvage truth from the wreckage. Amid trauma and chaos, the fragile relationship between Scott and the young boy grows and glows at the heart of this stunning novel, raising questions of fate, morality, and the inextricable ties that bind us together.
COMPLICATIONS: A SURGEON’S NOTES ON AN IMPERFECT SCIENCE
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This book is written by same author as Being Mortal, one of my five-star reads from 2018. Being Mortal really resonated with me, so I’m sure this one will be awesome too.
The description: In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel’s edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is – uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.
Your turn! What’s on your nightstand right now?
