Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Still Alice by Lisa Genova Published by iUniverse in 2005 Genre(s): Contemporary, Adult, Psychology, Fiction Format: Kindle Pages: 292 Goodreads Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she’s a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life--and her relationship with her family and the world--forever. At once beautiful and terrifying, Still Alice is a moving and vivid depiction of life with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease that is as compelling as A Beautiful Mind and as unforgettable as Judith Guest's Ordinary People. This book was recommended...

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Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Published by Broadway Books in 2006 Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Fiction Format: Paperback Pages: 254 Goodreads Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows, a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming. I...

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This month's reads...

I know I haven't been as actively posting as I was in the Fall, so I am going to backtrack a little bit to catch you up on my reading list. This will be a new ongoing topic I cover, as I am constantly reading and just as so, I am constantly looking for new books to read! To keep up with my current and past reads, check out my profile on Goodreads here: Taylor Seitz's Profile If you are looking for a way to get back into your reading spirit, consider joining the best book swapping site on the web, PaperBackSwap.com. PaperBack Swap allows members to freely request and send books to other people for no fee except the cost of the postage! I have been a member for nearly five years and I love it! I still post and send books to this day- in fact, I am currently expecting a book this week! But we'll get to that later. Click each title and author to see the book review post. The Giver by Lois...

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The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriary

The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty Published by Berkley on Jul 30, 2013 Genre(s): Mystery, Adult, Contemporary, Fiction Format: Hardcover Pages: 396 Goodreads At the heart of The Husband’s Secret is a letter that’s not meant to be read My darling Cecilia, if you’re reading this, then I’ve died... Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. . . . Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all—she’s an incredibly successful businesswoman, a pillar of her small community, and...

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