The Mother's July/August Reads

Because schedules get so busy during the summer months, I have combined my July and August reads into one blog post. Please read on below and enjoy!

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The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

The Rose Code is an absolute standout historical fiction novel with rich immersive details and beautifully written characters. Kate Quinn (author of The Alice Network and The Huntress) returns to WWII and the secretive world of Bletchley Park and creates an enthralling tale of three female code breakers, Osla, Mab, and Beth. Through their common ground of code breaking talent and secrecy, the three women form an unlikely yet unbreakable bond. Plot twist when a betrayal and traitor among one of their colleagues lands one of the women in an asylum years after the war. The Rose Code is impossibly gripping from start to finish—mysterious, heartbreaking, and fascinating—a knockout, must read!

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Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

“Forgiveness is a choice. It doesn’t arrive on fairy wings; it doesn’t descend from the sky for you to take or leave. Forgiveness is an action.”

Good Company is the book version of a Netflix bing! I absolutely devoured this book in two sittings and would not be surprised at all if it actually did become a Netflix series.

Set in bungalow cities outside of Los Angeles and New York, Good Company is a marriage story. A marriage story with its inciting incident happening in the first few pages when the main character Flora, going through clutter in the garage, discovers her husband Julian’s supposedly long-lost wedding band hidden in an envelope. “She warned Julian about the danger of secrets, how they were tiny cracks that compromised the tensile strength of a relationship.” The subsequent 26 chapters delve into a parsing of the couple’s relationship trajectory pared with their daughter Rose and best friends Margo and David. Each character so relatable and yet surprising.

The constant internal struggle between what the heart wants versus what it should be grateful it already has serves as the emotional engine of this novel that I very much recommend!

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One Two Three by Laurie Frankel

I recommend this book because it will make you laugh, it will also make you think.

If you are drawn to books with complex family drama intertwined with laugh-out-loud-on-one-page-grab-a-tissue-the-next, this is the book for you!

One, Two, Three is a story told by 17-year-old triplets identified by both their names and their birth order: One (Mab), Two (Monday), and Three (Mirabel). Each sister struggles with a form of mental or physical disability, which becomes a common theme throughout the story. The story takes places in Bourne—where the triplets have lived their entire lives—and a town that holds many secrets, including the abject pollution of air and water by the local chemical plant.

Although it has numerous light moments, One, Two, Three takes a clear-eyed look at the mess we make of the world when we privilege profits over people but is written in a way that doesn’t allow contempt, disgust or hatred to influence the pages.

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