In among my grad school work it was a semester of reading fluffy books. These novels helped me get through my first semester.
A semester of reading. Fluffy, non-academic reading
Producing babies at The Farm
The Farm by Joanne Ramos is a story of women trying to make their way in life. By commercializing childbirth.
The Girls at 17 Swann Street
Anna Roux wasn't ill, she was healthy. She ate only apples, and ran daily and had weight to lose. The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib is Anna's story of anorexia.
A Decadent 1889 Paris Fantasy in The Gilded Wolves
1889 Paris with a heist and magic and a charismatic but cursed heir in the Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi.
A World Where Women Can Only Use 100 Words per Day in Vox by Christina Dalcher
Imagine a world where you can't speak more than 100 words per day. No female can, even children. That's the realistic dystopian story, Vox by Christina Dalcher.
Time traveling in The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain
Carly's unborn daughter has an incurable heart defect. Well, incurable in 1970. Diane Chamberlain's The Dream Daughter is time travel and love.
A Key to Treehouse Living
William Tyce shares his knowledge of life in a glossary style guide. Except he's a a boy without parents, who grows up near a river in the rural Midwest, inadvertently shares his life story.
A beautifully told tragic tale: The Book of Essie
Sixteen-year old Essie Hicks is the youngest child of an Evangelical christian family with a hit reality television show. She's also pregnant. The Book of Essie is a beautiful and tragic YA novel by Meghan MacLean Weir.
Never under-estimate determined Widows
Dolly Rawlins' husband died in a robbery gone wrong and she's left with his ledgers, cash, and resources. So she recruits the other widows and finishes the job. Widows by Lynda La Plante is a crime thriller breaking stereotypes.
The Good Girl: a story of abuse and incels packaged as a romantic thriller.
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica is a story of abuse and power but, hey, it's all OK because they love each other. It's meant to be a thriller but it's Twilight for older women without the vampires.
A Crime-Fighting Baby Elephant – The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
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Jane Tennison’s early years
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The Story of Happy Liu, Trash Picker – Book Review: Happy Dreams
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Ginny Moon: not approximately, but exactly
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