About 30 pages into The Fighter, we know how it is going to end. Our main character, Jack, knows how it is going to end. Years of bare-knuckle brawling, gambling and pain meds are catching…
Browsing Category Drama
The Great Alone: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
Do you have what it takes to survive the harsh Alaskan winter? The cold, the dark, the wild animals? No heat or electricity, the nearest neighbor miles away? The Albright family finds out if they…
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
What happens when the glitz and glamour of Hollywood collides with a small Italian town? We find out in Beautiful Ruins when a beautiful starlet “accidentally” ends up in Porto Vergogna, Italy (the wannabe “sixth…
Queen of Hearts by Kimmery Martin
How well do you know your best friend? On paper, Zadie and Emma have storybook lives – best friends and successful doctors living in North Carolina. They have been through it all together – college,…
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Do you judge a book by its cover? Eleanor Oliphant prefers “Miss Oliphant.” She is socially awkward, quirky, and most would describe her as a social misfit. Her life is rigidly structured and monotonous, which…
Good Me Bad Me: A Novel by Ali Land
Serial Killers. They are infamous and closely studied. Shows and documentaries are made about them, novels are written. But what about their kids? What happens to them? The book begins with Milly, a fifteen year…
Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny
This story is about Graham Cavanaugh, his first wife, his current wife, his son and his life. Graham is married to Audra, his second wife – a ditzy, extrovert, who insists on asserting herself into…