Just a girl and her books
SILVER TEARS | Camilla Läckberg 07.06.2021 | Knopf Rating: 4/5 stars Faye finally has the life that she deserves. Despite having to fight tooth and nail for her current situation, Faye could not feel happier. She’s rich, the business she built has become a global brand, and she has carefully hidden away her small family … Continue reading Book Review: Silver Tears
BETTY | Tiffany McDaniel 08.18.2020 | Knopf Rating: 4.5/5 stars Betty Carpenter was born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and a white mother. Betty is the sixth of eight children. The world the Carpenter family inhabits is one of poverty and violence - both from outside the family and from within. … Continue reading Book Review: Betty
FURIOUS HOURS | Casey Cep05.07.2019 | KnopfRating: 4/5 stars Years after Harper Lee penned her novel, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, she found herself entranced by the true crime case of an Alabama serial killer. Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher, who was accused of murdering five of his family members in order to collect … Continue reading Book Review: Furious Hours
THE GOLDEN CAGE | Camilla Läckberg 07.07.2020 | Knopf Publishing Group Rating: 4.5/5 stars Faye Adelheim has loved Jack since the moment she met him at business school. Jack is the quintessential golden boy who grew up wealthy, unlike Faye who has worked hard over the years to keep her past buried. Faye helped Jack … Continue reading Book Review: The Golden Cage
BAD BLOOD | John Carreyrou 05.21.2018 | Knopf Publishing Group Rating: 5/5 stars Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes started to make her name known in Silicon Valley at the young age of nineteen. While a student at Stanford she began to promote her idea of a way to revolutionize blood testing. Instead of tubes … Continue reading Book Review: Bad Blood
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