Stash

 

Title: Stash: My Life in Hiding

Author: Laura Cathcart Robbins

Publisher: Atria Books

 
ISBN: 9781668005330

 

Thoughts: Yes, this book is about Robbins's addiction and subsequent sobriety, but moreover, it is about a mother who wants what's best for her children amidst a possibly contentious divorce.

Rating: 4/5

Intimacies

 

Title: Intimacies

Author: Katie Kitamura

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio

 
ISBN: n/a

 

Thoughts: Very character-driven, but also rather dry and detached.

Rating: 2/5

Maame

 

Title: Maame

Author: Jessica George

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

 
ISBN: 9780385549677

 

Thoughts: A very contemporary, slightly older coming-of-age story with a likeable main character, but nothing to really set it apart from others.

Rating: 3/5

American Mermaid

 

Title: American Mermaid

Author: Julia Langbein

Publisher: Doubleday

 
ISBN: 9780385549677

 

Thoughts: Kinda slow and kinda confusing, but there were some really great parts as well.

Rating: 3/5

Stacking the Shelves: 5/7-6/3

Got in an Owl Post Grab Bag:

By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar

 

Super Adjacent by Crystal Cestari

Blood Countess by Lana Popovic

 

Unraveling by Karen Lord

Prize from library Summer Reading Club:

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

 

Title: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Author: Kate DiCamillo

Publisher: Candlewick Press

 
ISBN: 9780763643676

 

Thoughts: Wonderful but heart-wrenching story of a lost, loved china bunny, much in the vein of Hitty: Her First Hundred Years, but for a modern audience.

Rating: 5/5

Count the Ways

 

Title: Count the Ways

Author: Joyce Maynard

Publisher: HarperAudio

 
ISBN: n/a

 

Thoughts: While some events in this novel are extreme, it is very realistic and full of feelings.

Rating: 3/5