The
Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris is a beautiful love story
set in the most horrific circumstances you can possibly imagine. Lale Sokolov
arrives in Auschwitz and is given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for
survival. It’s love at first sight when Gita comes through his line and he
resolves to save them both. The reviewer thoroughly enjoyed this book and
highly recommends it.
Packing for Mars by Mary
Roach is a fascinating look at what astronauts go through to get ready to go
back to space. Written in her usual humorous style, from the space shuttle
training toilet to a crash test of NASA’s space capsule with cadaver filling in
for astronaut, this book doesn’t disappoint. The reviewer found it interesting
and funny.
Set in small town Ohio during the
70’s, Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng explores the struggles
within families as well as between cultures. The father is a respected
professor and the mother endeavors to live her unfulfilled dreams through her
children. Each child is facing struggles of their own, but when the “favorite”
daughter commits suicide, the entire family is torn apart. Our reviewer enjoyed
this book.
The Bone Clocks by David
Mitchell focuses on Holly Sykes, a 15 year-old in a relationship with an older
man. She leaves home after arguing with her mother and finding her boyfriend
with her best friend, then begins work as a picker on a strawberry farm to
survive. Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena having heard voices she
knew as “the radio people” while still a child. The farther she travels into
the English countryside, the more intensive her visions become. The reviewer
says that the book tends to jump from one character to another, but then ties
them all together at the end. She recommends the book and this awesome author,
who also wrote Cloud Atlas.
The nonfiction book, The Mosquito
by Timothy C. Winegard, explains how the mosquito has been the single most
powerful force in determining humankind’s fate. From the Civil War to today,
the resiliency and dangers of the mosquito have changed the course of history.
There is no really effective treatment against mosquitos, even DTT was
ineffective while still being used. The reviewer found this book to be really
fascinating and wished she could read it again and again!
Big Sky by Kate Atkinson is
the latest in the Jackson Brodie
mystery series. This offering covers the difficult topic of human trafficking.
A group of men in London advertise for well-paying jobs. When young women answer
the ads, they are chained and used. The reviewer enjoyed the book and felt it
had enough compassionate characters to outweigh the bad so that the subject
matter wasn’t too overwhelming.
The last book discussed was Past
Tense by Lee Child which is part of the Jack
Reacher series. Reacher decides to explore the small town in New Hampshire
where his father grew up, but when he arrives, no one has ever heard of any
family by that name ever living there. As he investigates, he befriends a
Canadian couple who have broken down in the same area and become mired in
lethal dangers. As usual, Reacher comes to the rescue in his own indomitable
style . The reviewer found this book intriguing and didn’t want to stop reading
it.
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