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Author: Grace Peterson

Verity

Posted on August 2, 2022August 17, 2022 by Grace Peterson

For those of you thinking the name Colleen Hoover rings a bell, she’s the author of the bestselling book, It Ends With Us, which I would file under “romance”, “chick lit” etc. I promise I’m not trying to be too cool for school when I say I didn’t understand the hype and felt the book was…

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Sorrow and Bliss

Posted on July 19, 2022August 17, 2022 by Grace Peterson

It is hard to look into someone’s eyes. Even when you love them, it is difficult to sustain it,for the sense of being seen through. In some way, found out. It’s not often that I read a library book and enjoy it enough that I want my own copy, but I’m surprised and delighted to…

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Anatomy: a love story

Posted on July 5, 2022November 3, 2022 by Grace Peterson

If there was ever a doubt about the efficacy of promotional book clubs, let this be a testament that they work. I saw a blurb for Anatomy a couple months back when it was picked for Reese Witherspoon’s book club, and I was immediately intrigued. It’s 1871 and Edinburgh is gripped with fears of another…

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The No-Show

Posted on June 21, 2022November 3, 2022 by Grace Peterson

A few years ago, I read this endearing, captivating novel called The Flatshare, which I absolutely devoured in the way “easy reading” books allow. When I saw its author, Beth O’Leary, had a new book out, I immediately added it to my list. It’s Valentine’s Day and three women all get stood up. While to some…

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Beautiful World, Where Are You

Posted on May 31, 2022November 3, 2022 by Grace Peterson

Or were they in this moment unaware, or something more than unaware – were they somehow invulnerable to, untouched by, vulgarity and ugliness, glancing for a moment into something deeper, something concealed beneath the surface of life, not unreality but a hidden reality: the presence at all times, in all places, of a beautiful world?…

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The Last Thing He Told Me

Posted on May 17, 2022November 3, 2022 by Grace Peterson

Hannah Hall and Owen Michaels have been married one year. One year of love and bliss, in spite of his sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey, being less than thrilled about her new step-mom. Then one day, Owen disappears and a note is dropped off at their door with three words: ‘keep her safe’. As Owen’s company is accused…

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The Lions of Fifth Avenue

Posted on May 3, 2022November 3, 2022 by Grace Peterson

It’s 1913 and Laura Lyons, her husband, and their two children have an unusual living accommodation: an apartment cloistered in the newly opened New York Public Library. In 1993, Laura’s granddaughter Sadie Donovan is also at the New York Public Library, but working rather than living amongst the books. Their histories are connected when a series of thefts occur,…

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Leave the World Behind

Posted on April 19, 2022November 3, 2022 by Grace Peterson

All they wanted was a quiet week away: away from the noise and bustle of New York, away from the sticky summer heat locked amongst its buildings, away from the endless work emails. But they got far more than they bargained for when the owners of their rental home return because of a blackout in the city,…

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The Jane Austen Society

Posted on April 5, 2022October 5, 2022 by Grace Peterson

Don’t let the floral, whimsical cover fool you. The Jane Austen Society handles grief and loss in the same stride that it revels in the work of Austen and marvels in the friendships that are forged around great literature. From an American film star to a taciturn farmer, the Society is comprised of people from…

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Mayflies

Posted on March 15, 2022September 20, 2022 by Grace Peterson

‘It scares the health out of me,’ he sang from the Bodines song. He sighed and looked into the yellow distance. ‘I totally love those words,’ he said,’and I wish they were mine.’ It was always the way with Tully: keeping his worries close. I’m constantly captivated by covers and I’m embarrassed to admit they…

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Grace's bookshelf: read

The Things We Cannot Say
Daisy Jones & The Six
The Book Thief
Heaven to Betsy / Betsy in Spite of Herself
One Day in December
The Flatshare
Les Misérables
Before We Were Yours
Come Matter Here: Your Invitation to Be Here in a Getting There World
Two Steps Forward
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
Ask Again, Yes
The Mountain Between Us
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Outliers: The Story of Success
The Library of Lost and Found
Betsy and the Great World / Betsy's Wedding
Betsy Was a Junior / Betsy and Joe
The Book of Speculation

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