FRIDAY POTPOURRI: ADDING TO THE BOOKISH CLUTTER

 

Enter my slightly cluttered space, seen above…and join me in welcoming more books to add to the clutter.

As always, the Vine newsletter turned me into the greedy, book-grabbing person I always tend to be…and here are some of the delightful tomes headed my way.

 

Abroad, by Katie Crouch, promises to reveal more about the recklessness of youth.

 

 

The city of Grifonia, Italy, is swarming with secrets—thousands of years of dark, murderous secrets.
Taz, a British student who has just arrived for her year abroad, thinks that she will spend her time in Italy sipping wine and taking in the rolling Umbrian hills. But she soon falls in with a cabal of posh, reckless girls—the B4—who turn her quaint fantasies into an erotic and dangerous rush through the darkest realms of friendship and love. Abroad is a chilling parable of modern girlhood from an author who “from her opening line . . . grabs you and never lets go” (People).

 

And Nantucket Sisters, from the prolific author, Nancy Thayer,  has me ready to grab a beach bag, along with this book.

 

 

Friendship takes center stage in New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer’s captivating, emotionally charged novel featuring all the tenderness and wit, drama and romance that readers have come to expect from this insightful, much-loved writer.

 

And then, from an author I only discovered a few months ago, Keep Your Friends Close, by Paula Daly, is a riveting and electrifying story of a husband and wife and the devious best friend who comes between them.

 

 

 

Natty and Sean Wainwright have a rock-solid marriage—with two daughters, a successful business, and a beautiful house, they are a model family. When their younger daughter falls ill on an overseas school trip, Natty rushes to her side. Luckily, Natty’s best friend from college, Eve Dalladay, is visiting and offers to stay with Sean to lend a hand in the Wainwright household. But Natty returns home to find that Eve has taken to family life a little too well: Sean has fallen in love with her. With no choice but to put on a brave face, Natty attempts to start anew—yet no matter how hard she tries to set herself upright, Eve is there to knock her down again. Then Natty receives a mysterious note that says Eve has done this before—more than once—and the consequences were fatal. On a mission to reveal Eve as a vindictive serial mistress, Natty must navigate through a treacherous maze of secrets and lies that threatens her life and the safety of her loved ones.

 

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These are just a sampling of the treats ahead of me, coming in my mailbox.  I ordered three additional ones…but more about them later.

What are you reading today?  What are you hoping will be in your mailbox?

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