A Chain of Pearls
What kind of corruption can you find on Martha’s Vineyard?
Good Dirt
“This was the true miracle of life, he thought. No so much to be born as to bear up under what comes your way. To find a way forward. To embrace what was good.”
Heist Royale
Ocean’s Eleven meets 21…. a three phase gambit, winner lives.
Famous Last Words
When your loving husband takes hostages and then disappears for seven years…
Ace, Marvel, Spy
“When we’re forty, love, we’ll look back and realize we have everything we’ve ever wanted.”
A Killing Cold
“My whole body thrums with fear. It tells me to run. It tells me that the hunter is here, and I am prey. I have always been prey.”
Fairest of All
The villain origin story of the wicked Queen in Snow White.
One Woman’s War
“Deceiving the Nazis was one thing, deceiving her husband was quite another.”
Broken Bread
“God cares much more about how we eat than he cares about what we eat.”
Sparkly Green Earrings
“Every mother knows the reason Robert Frost took the road less traveled is because he wasn’t traveling with children who needed to go to the bathroom every thirty minutes.”
A Killer’s Code
“If you’re watching this, I’m dead. And others will be soon if you don’t act fast.”
Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full
“God made me a mother because he jealously and rightly desires praise for his own name, and this is how he saw fit to do it. God aims to glorify himself through my family, and we all get carried along by his grace.”
Like Mother, Like Daughter
“I did what I do best: I made the problem go away.”
The Vanishing Half
“You can escape town, but you cannot escape blood. Somehow, the Vignes twins believed themselves capable of both.”
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
This was a rare ‘did not finish’ book for me.
2024 in Review
All the 79 books I read this year!
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
“A woman covered in blood who doesn’t remember how it got on her. And a man decapitated… by a piece of paper.”
Recursion
“What do you cling to, moment to moment, if memories can simply change? What, then, is real? And if the answer is nothing, where does that leave us?”
Crying in H Mart
“Within 5 years, I lost both my aunt and my mother to cancer. When I go to H Mart I’m searching for memories. I’m collecting the evidence that the Korean half of my identity didn’t die when they did.”
Tactics
“If we disqualify legitimate discussion, we compromise our ability to know the truth, and error can thrive without restraint.”