WooReads Patron Reviews: Family Friction

You know what they say: You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family. Read over these patron reviews and decide if there's a book you'd like to try. You might find a fictional family you wish (or don't wish) you could be a part of. And while you're reading, don't forget to log what you've done in Worcester Public Library's WooReads Adult Reading Challenge. We've almost reach 73% of our goal of reading 5,000 books as a community by May 31st! Remember that our grand prize this year is a Kindle Paperwhite. You can even win smaller prizes along the way just for logging books or for writing reviews like these.

Haven't joined the WooReads Adult Reading Challenge yet? If you do, remember you can log books starting back from September 2018 until now. Every book counts towards reaching our goal.


Happy reading!

The Great Alone 
By Kristin Hannah
I absolutely loved this book from beginning to end. I seriously couldn’t get enough and was sad when it ended. A great story of the family who is dealing with household abuse and trying to escape it while trying to survive in a small, remote, close knit community of Alaska.

 ~Kim W.

The War Outside 
By Monica Hesse
What a book. I felt so much while reading this. I was excited by this book because I love historical fiction and I have never read any historical fiction about the internment camps in America. I was excited that it had both Japanese and German experiences represented in this book. But this book was about so much more than that. It was about what it means to love and to sacrifice for love. It was about friendship and connection in the hardest of times. It was about complex families. I really loved this book and would highly recommend it to anyone interested.

~Cynthia O.

Unsheltered 
By Barbara Kingsolver
Two families (and their contemporaries) in two different centuries and therefore two different social milieu brought together by residing in the same house wrestle with what is means to feel sheltered - at home - and what it takes to feel the freedom of being unsheltered. A thoughtful work asking serious questions.

~William C.

The Last Days Of Rabbit Hayes 
By Anna McPartlin
This is a lovely, funny story about an Irish family (set in Ireland) grappling with the imminent death of one of their own. The author does an outstanding job of showing what hospice offers and how it can help healing. The family in the story moves through their fears and sadness about saying goodbye to her to loving her through her dying. Highly recommended.

~Judi P.

The Cornwalls Are Gone 
By James Patterson
Her family is missing, is it her fault? She must find them before they are murdered. Twists and turns till the end of course.

~Karen S.