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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: Recap, Summary & Analysis

Part I – Gone Part II – Gotten Part III – The Last Love Epilogue Part I – Gone Chapter 1: The Hurricane In June 1972 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, the day after Hayes Street on Chicken Hill is torn up to make room for a new townhouse development, a skeleton is found at the bottom …

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

In The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, McBride tells a compassionate and humorous story about community and its people. The book was selected as one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2023, it’s been popular among various book clubs and the reviews have been fantastic. I also previously read Deacon King Kong, also by James …

None of This Is True

None of This is True by Lisa Jewell was released last July, so this one has been on my list for a while. I’ve had pretty good luck with Lisa Jewell novels in the past, so I had high expectations going into this one. Josie is downtrodden and unassuming woman, but with a dramatic story …

None of This is True: Recap & Summary

Prologue Part I Part II Part III Part IV SIXTEEN MONTHS LATER (Note that the book is interspersed with “clips from the show” — which is basically written descriptions of excerpts from the “Hi! I’m Your Birthday Twin Clip” show that this book is about.) Prologue The book opens with a man leaving a hotel …

First Lie Wins

First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston is a thriller about a mysterious woman with a fake identity who is trying to stay one step ahead when she realizes there’s something suspicious going on that she’s involved in. This was also Reese’s Book Club Pick for January. First Lie Wins is a little bit more cloak-and-dagger …