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A Book I pre-ordered I usually love Chris Bohjalian’s books, he is one of mine favorite authors and, after two years, I was looking forward to read his new novel. It is a good thriller, a good story and nice characters as usual, unfortunately for me there was something “disturbing” with part of the plot! We all know that right now planet earth is ravaged by an awful virus epidemic and reading about a possible biological weapons was a little troublesome. I loved how Bohjalian created another great female heroine, Alexis is strong, smart but real. Goodreads: The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian

A book about a travel or a journey Anthony Doerr’s memoir of his year in Rome was a discover for me. I am from the province of Rome, and I thought to know Rome very well, but He gave me a new insight and perspective in this town. I found some of his description about Romans very true (Yes, we love little kids and we often start playing with them even though we don’t know them! And Yes we overdress often!). He wrote sometimes that in our everyday life we stop noticing things because of “habit”, reading this book gave me the chance of seeing Rome with different eyes and I am grateful for this. Goodreads: Four seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr

Kindle Unlimited often offers series of short stories, I read some usually because there is a short story of an author I know and love. Also in this case I discover this one because of Julie Orringer. Right now I read only her story but I will soon read the others ones and I will update this post! Can you Feel This? by Julie Orringer : good short story. I was surprised by the story by Julie Orringer, I read her novels and this one is completely different, more intimate and introspective. Everything My Mother Taught Me by Alice Hoffaman. TBR  The Lion's Den by Anthony Marra. TBR  Zenith Man by Jennifer Haigh. TBR The Weddings by Alexander Chee :  t his series is about "secrets, unspoken desires, and dangerous revelations between loved ones". In this story the untold fact wasn’t really a dangerous secret and left me perplexed. I think it was more about the main character meditate about his previous relationsh...

  A book set in a place you want to visit. I loved it! Ten years ago Maya Seale was one of the 12 jurors in a controversial murder case, now ten years later there will be a reunion of the jurors and the story will have a new mystery added to the old murder. I think it is a good story for a few reasons: multiple mysteries, interesting characters and a good description how a jury works. the novel is set in Los Angeles and it gave me the opportunity to discover new interesting places. Goodreads: The Holdout by Graham Moore

 A book set in a place you visited I am not sure if I am going to read again from this author, I struggled to finish this book, more than once I thought to just leave it and do not finish it.  There were two reasons why I picked this book: 1) this novel been set in Dublin, I was wishing to "visit" again this city and learn a little more about Ireland but except for few streets naming there wasn't much about the city; 2) The main characters has my age, so I wanted to see "how he was doing". Maybe I read this book at the wrong time, may be the story was too complex/introspective for me Goodreads: Smile by Roody Doyle

A book with "Summer" in the title This book was a complete surprise and I loved it.  I received an email inviting me to read it (thanks Atria Books and Simon & Schuster!) and, if it wasn't for this invite, I wouldn't have read this book because I thought it was not "my cup of tea". I am not going to describe the plot, but it is a nice story, I loved the characters and how the author developed them, I really liked how Jennifer Weiner described the ups and downs of Daphne and Drue friendship, it was very realistic. Only one negative thing I think there  are few anachronisms about social media use.  Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review! Goodreads: Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner Expected publication date: May 19th 2020