Summer Reading Celebration

The Road From Home is and exciting and engaging book. David Kherdian perfectly tells the story about how in 1915, the Turkish government began to abolish all the Armenians in the country. I highly recommend reading this book, for it depicts one of the worst holocausts ever, and offers a fantastic tale of the misfortune the Armenians faced.

I loved the movie. Read the book. Loved the book. Separately though. Is my brain fully formed?

4.75 stars. I loved this book! Emma and Justin have my heart!

3.5 stars. It was an okay and fun book.

Reading the Dragonslayers' Academy series with my grandson. He likes dragon stories, and this includes a lot of humor.

ARC read. I love Tarah DeWitt. Love the content warnings, Loved everything. How beautiful and sad and unexpectedly spicy.

This was a great book if you like historical fiction, particularly WWII history. I have read many different historical novels set around the arena of WWII, but this one had a unique perspective. It is seen through the eyes of a young woman who goes to London with a friend after losing her own accommodations in the country. A good friend of her deceased mother puts her up and helps her land a job in a bookstore run by a crotchety old man (think, crotchety people are that way for a reason...but that is secondary to the story). She becomes very successful at what she does even though she is not a reader at the start of the book. The story unfolds against the backdrop of Hitler's blitz on London and England. So you get a front row seat to that harrowing year. I always learn new things and perspectives about the war when I read these books. This was a charming and generally heartwarming read based on real events including the impact of literature during the war.

Excellent book, with a *meh* ending.

I loved this book. Set during WWII in London during the year of the Blitz, this book shares so much more than a ring side seat to the Blitz. This was a fresh take on telling the story of the Blitz. Two friends are forced to set off for London when one is ousted from her place of rest (unfairly). In London they stay with the best friend of the ousted girls deceased mother, Mrs. Weatherford. Mrs. Weatherford is a kind soul and she gets Grace a temporary job in a bookstore with a cratchedy owner. Grace is great in business, but she isn't a reader. Enter a patron who introduces her to reading just before he goes off to eat. Grace falls in love with reading and the bookshop turns around under her able hand, as does the owner. But then begins the Blitz, and we follow this bookshop and the others in London throughout that harrowing experience.

It was good. Very fast paced graphic novel.