The BookFetish Blog

Fifth in my vacation reads series is Wendy Wax’s new release, A Week at the Lake. A week at the beach was the perfect setting to read this women’s fiction piece, although I certainly didn’t need a whole week to read the book. From the publisher’s summary: Twenty years ago, Emma Michaels, Mackenzie Hayes, and Serena Stockton […]

Another of my vacation reads this summer was Autumn Crush, by Andrew Eustace Anselmi. From the book summary: Guy Bennett was one of America’s post-World War II success stories. Born of Italian immigrants during the Depression, he became a captain of industry, with a skyscraper in New York City and a son in the United States Senate. […]

Last year, I read Kimberly McCreight’s Reconstructing Amelia.  I don’t think I ever reviewed it.  I’m not sure why. I loved the book and raved about it to friends, but I never sat down to write a post.  So when a friend who had also enjoyed Reconstructing Amelia said I needed to also read McCreight’s […]

Most of us are familiar with the names Alan Shepard, John Glenn, and Neil Armstrong. Thanks to Tom Hanks, “Houston, we have a problem” was used to voice concern over a situation for some time after Apollo 13 was released. But until I read Lily Koppel’s The Astronaut Wives Club, I didn’t know really anything […]

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore’s Bittersweet kept me turning pages, so enthralled that I finished the book in under 24 hours. From the book summary:  On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate, the beautiful, wild, blue-blooded Genevra Winslow. Ev invites Mabel to spend the summer at Bittersweet, her cottage on the Vermont estate […]