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The Last American Man By Elizabeth Gilbert

The Last American Man By Elizabeth Gilbert

The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert: My honest thoughts on the book’s plot, characters, and overall impact. Finalist for the National Book Award From the New York Times-bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic and City of Girls comes a riveting exploration of manhood and all its complicated meanings through the portrait of an American Mountain Man.  In The Last American Man, Elizabeth Gilbert…

Committed A Love Story By Elizabeth Gilbert

Committed: A Love Story By Elizabeth Gilbert

Committed: A Love Story by Elizabeth Gilbert: My honest thoughts on the book’s plot, characters, and overall impact. The #1 New York Times bestselling follow-up to Eat, Pray, Love–an intimate and erudite celebration of love—from the author of Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear. At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man…

Eat Pray Love By Elizabeth Gilbert

Eat Pray Love By Elizabeth Gilbert

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert: My honest thoughts on the book’s plot, characters, and overall impact. One of the most iconic, beloved, and bestselling books of our time from the bestselling author of City of Girls and Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert. Eat Pray Love is Elizabeth Gilbert’s heartfelt memoir detailing her decision to leave behind her conventional American life in search of…

The Signature of All Things By Elizabeth Gilbert

The Signature of All Things By Elizabeth Gilbert

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert: My honest thoughts on the book’s plot, characters, and overall impact. A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and City of Girls In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert crafts an enthralling tale of love, adventure, and…

Big Magic By Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic By Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert: My honest thoughts on the book’s plot, characters, and overall impact. The instant #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller “A must read for anyone hoping to live a creative life… I dare you not to be inspired to be brave, to be free, and to be curious.” —PopSugar In Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert, the bestselling author…

City of Girls By Elizabeth Gilbert

City of Girls By Elizabeth Gilbert

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert: My honest thoughts on the book’s plot, characters, and overall impact. From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don’t have to be a good girl to be a good person. “A spellbinding novel about…

Comfort & Joy By Kristin Hannah

Comfort & Joy By Kristin Hannah

Comfort & Joy By Kristin Hannah: I am going to provide you with an honest review of Comfort & Joy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Kristin Hannah is beloved by readers around the world for her unique blend of powerful emotion and exquisite storytelling. In Comfort & Joy, she offers a modern-day fairy tale—the story of a woman who gets a miraculous chance…

The Things We Do for Love By Kristin Hannah

The Things We Do for Love By Kristin Hannah

The Things We Do for Love By Kristin Hannah: I am going to provide you with an honest review of The Things We Do for Love. Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken Angie DeSaria’s heart, leading to a painful divorce. She moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown to manage her family’s restaurant. Angie’s life…

Angel Falls By Kristin Hannah

Angel Falls By Kristin Hannah

Angel Fall By Kristin Hannah: I am going to provide you with an honest review of Angel Fall. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Four Winds, Angel Falls is “a tearjerker . . . about the triumphs of family” (Detroit Free Press). When Mikaela Campbell falls into a coma, her husband, Liam, is left to hold their family together and care…

Home Front By Kristin Hannah

Home Front By Kristin Hannah

Home Front By Kristin Hannah: I am going to provide you with an honest review of Home Front. “Home Front is Hannah’s crowning achievement.”—The Huffington Post In this powerhouse of a novel, Kristin Hannah explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband and wife, in love and at war. Michael and Jolene…

Home Again By Kristin Hannah

Home Again By Kristin Hannah

Home Again By Kristin Hannah: I am going to provide you with an honest review of Home Again. From the New York Times bestselling author The Four Winds, a moving, powerful novel about the fragile threads that bind together our lives and the astonishing potential of second chances “A tender, beautifully told story of emotional growth, forgiveness [and] the possibility of miracles.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)…

Distant Shores By Kristin Hannah

Distant Shores By Kristin Hannah

Distant Shores By Kristin Hannah: I am going to provide you with an honest review of Distant Shores. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Hannah examines whether love and commitment are enough to sustain a marriage when two people who have put their individual dreams on ice get a chance to defrost them . . . in fast-moving prose punctuated by snappy asides.”—People…

Between Sisters By Kristin Hannah

Between Sisters By Kristin Hannah

Between Sisters By Kristin Hannah: I am going to provide you with an honest review of Between Sisters. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Bestselling author [Kristin] Hannah [brings] snap and a lot of warmth to a familiar lesson: that contentment comes from accepting each other’s flaws.”—People In “Between Sisters” by Kristin Hannah, Meghann Dontess, a highly successful attorney, made a terrible choice…

Winter Garden By Kristin Hannah

Winter Garden By Kristin Hannah

Winter Garden By Kristin Hannah: I am going to provide you with an honest review of Winter Garden. Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn’t know her mother? From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes Kristin Hannah’s powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between the present and…

On Mystic Lake By Kristin Hannah

On Mystic Lake By Kristin Hannah

On Mystic Lake By Kristin Hannah: I am going to provide you with an honest review of On Mystic Lake. A poignant and tender story of love, loss, passion, and the fragile threads that bind families together from the author of The Nightingale. “A beautifully simple, deeply compassionate story.”—Diana Gabaldon In “On Mystic Lake” by Kristin Hannah, Annie Colwater’s life is upended…

True Colors By Kristin Hannah

True Colors By Kristin Hannah

True Colors By Kristin Hannah: I am going to provide you with an honest review of True Colors. True Colors is New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah’s most provocative, compelling, and heart-wrenching story yet. With the luminous writing and unforgettable characters that are her trademarks, she tells the story of three sisters whose once-solid world is broken apart by jealousy, betrayal, and…

Magic Hour By Kristin Hannah

Magic Hour By Kristin Hannah

Magic Hour By Kristin Hannah: I am going to provide you with an honest review of Magic Hour. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “The Nightingale” and “The Great Alone” comes “Magic Hour,” an incandescent story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph of hope, and the meaning of home. In the rugged Pacific Northwest…

Summer Island By Kristin Hannah

Summer Island By Kristin Hannah

Summer Island By Kristin Hannah: I am going to provide you with an honest review of Summer Island. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Great Alone returns with a poignant, funny, luminous novel about a mother and daughter—the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness. “[Kristin] Hannah is superb at…