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📖 Book Review 📖 Take a nice, long look at this cover, friends. You’re going to be seeing it ALL over the place soon. I was thrilled when a dear friend shared with me an ARC of The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir before it releases June 12. . The story follows 17-year-old Esther Anne Hicks, the youngest child of a Duggar-like conservative Christian reality-TV family. When Essie becomes pregnant, her controlling mother devises a plan to cover-up the pregnancy with a quick marriage to a classmate, Roarke, who has a secret of his own. Meanwhile, Essie has her own agenda. She contacts Liberty Bell, a reporter with her own unusual past, and together they begin to work on a plan that could blow the entire Hicks family apart. . Told from the alternating perspectives of Essie, Roarke, and Liberty, the novel explores religion, shame, politics, fame, corruption, sexuality, and so much more. Congratulations @meghanmacleanweir on your debut novel. Can’t wait for the rest of the world to meet Essie! . . . . . . #thebookofessie #meghanmacleanweir #bookstagram #bookreview #bibliophile #lovebooks

🌹🌼💐Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there! May your day be filled with love and light and maybe a little time to curl up with a book. 📚 . . . . . . . . #mothersday #bookstagram #bookphotography #booksandflowers #bibliophile #spring #happymothersday

Happy Friday! We officially took possession of our new house so I spent the day stripping wallpaper and prepping for the move. Not much reading in the cards, but hopefully some tonight. What’s your current read? . . . . . . #booknerd #bookphotography #booksandflowers #bibliophile #tulips

📖 Book Review 📖 Another absolutely wonderful read. I finished this with tears on my face and lots of love in my heart. In my medical practice I occasionally interface with individuals with ALS, most often in the diagnostic phase (I diagnose maybe 1 or 2 cases each year) and occasionally in the later phase. It’s an ugly, unfair disease and I started this book wondering how Genova would approach it without being saccharine or depressing. . She made the brave decision to focus on two very flawed, very human characters, which made all the difference. Richard is a world-famous classical pianist but a terrible husband and father. When he is diagnosed with ALS, he has nowhere to go so Karina, his ex-wife, takes him in. We have a front seat, through Richard, to all the humiliation and degradation of the disease process— paralysis, spasticity, loss of independence, moving to a wheelchair, feeding tube placement, augmentative communication, loss of lung function, and more. Through Karina, we see the burden on the caregiver, the exhaustion and uncertainty. . This isn’t solely a story about a devastating disease, however. It’s about family and forgiveness, about letting go and moving on. About decisions and preparing for death, sometimes gracefully, sometimes not. . Highly, highly recommended. . . #bookstagram #bookreview #everynoteplayed #lisagenova #als #booklover #bookphotography #bibliophile

📖 Book Review 📖 Apologies for the non-bookstagram pic but this was an audiobook for me and I’m moving and therefore the taking of photographs is a little on the back burner. Nevertheless! The Alice Network has been in my ear for the past week or so and you guys, it hit ALL the right notes for me. Dual timeline- check! Not one but TWO strong-willed heroines- check! Not one but TWO attractive men with Scottish accents- checkity CHECK! Creepy villain- oooh yes. Female friendships- uh-huh. Wonderful action, suspense, intrigue, emotion, and romance. If you loved The Nightingale, I think you’ll enjoy this. As a side note, the narration is fantastic. But I may need to buy myself a hardcover because there’s some scenes that may warrant some re-reading, they were so good. Highly recommended! Have you read it? . . . . . #booknerd #bookreview #thealicenetwork #historicalfiction #katequinn #audiobook #audiobookstagram

I’m almost finished with this twisty-turny book. Have you read it? What did you think? . . . . . . #bookstagram #booknerd #sometimesilie #bibliophile #bookphotography #suspense #alicefeeney

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