In one word: Unrelenting Cannonball Bingo Bingo: Book Club I picked up this book as it was the September offering of my local library book club that was meeting in person for the first time in five-ever. This was a great book for a book club, in that opinions varied on its merits, and “based on a true story” historical fiction is ripe for conversation. The story is based on a real coastal wildfire that took place in Maine in 1947. In the beginning, this […]
“She used to think the sea the one blessing of winter: even though the world around her was bleak, the water seldom lost its color. Today the contrast between the dead black and the rich blue is almost impossible to believe in.”
The Stars are Fire by Anita Shreve