Saturday, March 14, 2020

March Book of the Month

I am little behind on this post. It has been a little crazy around well I should say all around the world right now. Better late than never. This is my favorite subscription box because all you get are books and not the extras which can clutter your house. Don't get me wrong sometimes I do order another box because of the book that is coming in the box and I have like the stuff inside the box. I have been with The Book of the Month club going on three years now and have never been disappointed. I am putting in my referral link in case you would to join. No pressure to join just giving you the option.
https://www.mybotm.com/0cxpwrpoiqlivn29?show_box=true
Now onto the books.

 When your books tis is how they come. How many you get depends on the size of your box. I almost always get the max of three books a month.
 When you open the box you will always see them wrapped in plastic with a book mark on top.
 Here is a side view and the title of the books I got. It was hard this month to choose.
The Great Believers By: Rebecca Makkai is a fiction. This is what the synopsis of the book says.
In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for Chicago art gallery, is about to pull off an amazing coup by bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying-and after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister.
Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter, who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. These two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the '80s and the chaos of the modern world as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.

Hour of the Assassin By: Matthew Quirk is a mystery. This is what the synopsis of the book says.
Framed and on the run for his life, a former Secret Service agent discovers how far some men will go to grasp the highest office in the land.
As a Secret Service agent, Nick Averose spent a decade protecting the most powerful men and women in America and developed a unique gift: the ability to think like an assassin. Now, he uses that skill in a little-known but crucial job. As a "red-teamer," he poses as a threat, testing the security around our highest officials to find vulnerabilities-before our enemies can. He is a mock killer, capable of slipping past even the best defenses.
His latest assignment is to assess the security surrounding the former CIA director at his DC-area home. But soon after he breaches the man's study, the home's inner sanctum, Nick finds himself entangled in a vicious crime that will shake Washington to its foundations-as all the evidence points to Nick.
Nick knows he's the perfect scapegoat. But who is framing him, and why? To clear his name, he must find the truth-a search that leads to a dark conspiracy whose roots stretch back decades. The prize is the most powerful position in the world: the Oval Office.
To save himself and the people he loves, Nick must stop the men who rule Washington before they bury him along with their secrets.

The Two Lives of Linda Bird By: Josie Silver is a contemporary. Two Lives. Two Loves. One Impossible Choice.
Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They'd been together for more than a decade and Lydia though their love was indestructible.
But she was wrong. On Lydia's twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident.
So now it's just Lydia, and all she wants is to hide indoors and sob until her eyes fall out. But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to try to live fully, happily, even without him. So, enlisting the help of his best friend, Jonah, and her sister, Elle, she takes her first tentative steps into the world, open to life-and perhaps even love-again.
But then something inexplicable happens that gives her another chance at her old life with Freddie. A life where none of the tragic events of the past few months have happened.
Lydia is pulled again and again through a doorway to her past, living tow lives, impossibly, at once. But there's an emotional toll to returning to a world where Freddie, alive, still owns her heart. Because there's someone in her new life, her real life, who wants her to stay.

I haven't read anything by either of these authors even though I do own another novel by Josie Silver.
I am very interested in giving these books a try.
If you are a member of the Book of the Month Club what books did you get this month?
I hope you will give this subscription a try.
Until next time keep reading.



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