All Books Considered

1.   Dancing with the Tiger  by Lili Wright I loved this one - the setting, the mystery, the writing. Can't wait to read what this author writes next!  My review HERE .  2.  The Hating Game   by Sally Thorne Such a perfect love/hate romance! Funny and swoon-worthy! 3.  An Innocent Fashion  by R.J. Hernández This wasn't anything like I expected but it was juicy in its prose and plot and seriously lovely all the same.  My review  HERE . 4.   Fill the Sky  by Katherine A. Sherbrooke I've thought about this book so many times since I read it - I just can't get it out of my head - the setting and the characters feel so real to me.  My review HERE . 5.   The Smell of Other People's Houses   by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock This book was so beautiful and so unexpected.  My review HERE . 6.   Sweetbitter  by Stephanie Danl...

My Mrs. Brown by William Norwich Blurb from Goodreads : Sometimes a dress isn’t just a dress. Emilia Brown is a woman of a certain age. She has spent a frugal, useful, and wholly restrained life in Ashville, a small town in Rhode Island. Overlooked especially by the industries of fashion and media, Mrs. Brown is one of today’s silent generations of women whose quiet no-frills existences would make them seem invisible. She is a genteel woman who has known her share of personal sorrows and quietly carried on, who makes a modest living cleaning and running errands at the local beauty parlor, who delights in evening chats with her much younger neighbor, twenty-three-year-old Alice Danvers. When the grand dame of Ashville passes away, Mrs. Brown is called upon to inventory her estate and comes across a dress that changes everything. This isn’t a Cinderella confection; it’s a simple yet exquisitely tailored Oscar de la Renta she...