Wow! Another great month of reading! First of all I listened to Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. It has been on my "Want to Read" list for a long time. Eleanor is socially awkward and is bound by her own strict routines at home and at work. She eventually makes a great friend at work, Raymond, by chance. Romantically, she has her eyes on a local musician. Eventually, Eleanor has to really examine her life. This story is charming and inspiring. I highly recommend this book.
The Kiss Quotient is Helen Hoang's debut novel. This book is a combination of steamy and sweet. The main character, Stella, has Asperger's Syndrome. She has everything going for her in life, except a romance. Stella finds a unique way to solve her problem by hiring the perfect escort. This book is similar to Pretty Woman, only in reverse. This book is not for YA because of its steamy content.
The Friends We Keep by Jane Green is about three friends, Evvie, Maggie, and Topher who meet in college in England. There are some secrets in this novel that are revealed after the friends reunite during a college reunion. I enjoyed this book.
Next I read In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. I wanted to read this book after it was revealed that Harper Lee did much of the research for the novel for Capote. She actually attended the trial of Hickock and Smith and took copious notes. The book is about the murder of four members of the Clutter family in 1959 in Holcomb, Kansas. This true crime novel is suspenseful, as it follows the investigation, capture, and trial of Hickock and Smith.
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim is one of the Spivey's Book Club picks for the month of July. It is Ms. Kim's debut novel, and it is a Book of the Month selection, too. There is an explosion at an HBOT facility in which two people are killed and several are injured. The facility, run by Pak Yoo, uses the oxygen treatments to help with a variety of conditions. The novel follows the courtroom trial in which one of the clients is accused of purposely causing the explosion. There are so many twists and turns in the novel, and as a reader, it is suspenseful because it is difficult to tell which characters are being truthful and which are lying.
I also read Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals by Rachel Hollis. This is the follow-up book to Girl, Wash Your Face by Ms. Hollis. She first breaks the book down into all of the excuses you can possibly make to not accomplish your goals and how to overcome that. In the next part of the book, she focuses on the behaviors you need to accomplish your goals. This book gives a lot of no-nonsense advice and is very inspirational. There are now workbooks to go with each of the books if you want to dig deeper.
The last book I read this month was Recursion by Blake Crouch. What a book! It kept my attention from start to finish. It is about memory. To be more specific, it is about False Memory Syndrome which is spreading across the world. The book intersects the lives of NYPD Detective Barry Sutton and neuroscientist, Helena Smith. This was one of my favorite books this month. It is also a Spivey's Book Club pick for the month of July and it is a Book of the Month selection, too.
As I said, I read some great books in July. Now, I'm onto my August reading! Happy Reading!!
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