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Saturday, May 28, 2022
Book Review - Father's Day; Simon Van Booy
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Book Review - Klara and the Sun; Kazuo Ishiguro
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros - Privacy; NIna Sadowsky
Welcome to First Chapter/Intros, hosted by Yvonne @ Socrates Book Reviews. Each week readers post the first paragraph (or 2) of a book we are reading or plan to read soon.
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Brief Book Reviews - The Lost Apothecary; Sarah Penner - The Shore; Katie Runde and The Kind Worth Killing; Peter Swanson and Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient; Theresa Brown

Thursday, May 19, 2022
Spotlight Post - Metropolis; B.A. Shapiro
Six people, six secrets, six different backgrounds. They would never have met if not for their connection to the Metropolis Storage Warehouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When someone falls down an elevator shaft at the facility, each becomes caught up in an intensifying chain of events.
We meet Serge, an unstable but brilliant street photographer who lives in his storage unit, which overflows with thousands of undeveloped pictures; Marta, an undocumented immigrant finishing her dissertation and hiding from ICE; Liddy, an abused wife and mother, who recreates her children’s bedroom in her unit; Jason, a former corporate lawyer now practicing in the facility; Rose, the office manager, who takes illegal kickbacks to let renters live in the building; and Zach, the building’s owner and an ex-drug dealer, who scans Serge’s photos as he searches for clues to the accident.
But was it an accident? A murder attempt? Suicide? As her characters dip in and out of one another’s lives trying to find answers and battling societal forces beyond their control, B. A. Shapiro both questions the myth of the American dream and builds tension to an exhilarating climax. Taut and emotional, Metropolis is impossible to put down and impossible to forget.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros - The Kind Worth Killing; Peter Swanson
Welcome to First Chapter/Intros, hosted by Yvonne @ Socrates Book Reviews. Each week readers post the first paragraph (or 2) of a book we are reading or plan to read soon.
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Brief Book Reviews - Playing Catch Up - Little Souls; Sandra Dallas -- Marrying the Ketchups; Jennifer Close and Xstabeth; David Keenan

Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Book Review - The Lioness; Chris Bohjalian
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros - The Lost Apothecary; Sarah Penner
Welcome to First Chapter/Intros, hosted by Yvonne @ Socrates Book Reviews. Each week readers post the first paragraph (or 2) of a book we are reading or plan to read soon.
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NELLA
February 3, 1791
She would come at daybreak--the woman whose letter I held in my hands, the woman whose name I did not yet know.
I knew neither her age nor where she lived. I did not know her rank in society nor the dar things of which she dreamed when night fell. She could be a vicim or a transgressor. A new wife or a vengeful widow. A nursemaid or a courtesan.
But despite all that I did not know, I understood this: that woman knew exactly who she wanted dead.
This is our book group pick for the end of the month and from this intro I am really looking forward to it. It is told in (2) timelines past and present day.
What do you think -- Read more or pass?
Monday, May 9, 2022
Book Review - Project Hail Mary; Andy Weir
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Book Review - Remarkably Bright Creatures; Shelby Van Pelt
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Book Review: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole; Susan Cain
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros - The Lioness; Chris Bohjalian
Welcome to First Chapter/Intros, hosted by Yvonne @ Socrates Book Reviews. Each week readers post the first paragraph (or 2) of a book we are reading or plan to read soon.