grief
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Before Your Memory Fades
From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Cafe comes another story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Café Funiculi Funicula’s time-traveling offer. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW I think the second book is my favorite so far, I still have two more to…
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Tales from the Cafe
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time . . . –Storygraph MY REVIEW I enjoiyed this…
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Downlands Tour Review
Every street has its stories – those of the living and those of the dead. –StoryGraph Book Synopsis: A wonderfully evocative ghost story in the great tradition of M. R. James and Daphne Du Maurier with a contemporary edge. Perfect for Halloween and illustrated in Norm’s own gorgeous style. “Every…
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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories. Their last one begins here. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW This book will destroy you in the best ways, emotionally. Lenni is 17 in the hospital and it’s doubtful whether she’ll ever know a life outside of it or one much longer than what she’s…
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Waiting for Lindsay Review
GoodReads: On a hot July day, Lindsay Mathieson, confident, carefree and thirteen years old, walks up the beach where she has played all her life, around the rocks and out of sight. She does not come back. More than thirty years later, her younger brothers and cousins are still dealing…
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A Monster Calls: Film VS. Book
GoodReads: The bestselling novel about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness. Conor has the same dream every night, ever since his mother first fell ill, ever since she started the treatments that don’t quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight, when he…
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Starve Acre eARC Review
GoodReads: The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby’s son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a haunted place. Juliette, convinced Ewan still lives there in some form, seeks…
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Photographer of the Lost
Hey everyone, I am excited as this is my second really highly rated book on the same day to have a blog tour for, and it’s only the second day of the month! Woo! Until she knows her husband’s fate, she cannot decide her own… An epic novel of forbidden…
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The Sea Refuses No River Blog Tour
The journey of grief is a strange one and one not often talked about in our everyday reality of this society, but I know what it’s like to dive deep, down to the bottom of the wreck, feel the ribs of the wreck, after losing a parent so young in…
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