WooReads Spring Reading Challenge For Adults: Patron Book Reviews

 

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month. View this booklist featuring titles that bring awareness to mental health issues.

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Enjoy these book reviews submitted by your fellow patrons through our WooReads challenge.

The Last Confessions of Sylvia P. by Lee Kravetz

Excellent book!!! This is Lee Kravetz's debut novel, and I'm excited to read more. Three notebooks containing Sylvia Plath's manuscript for The Bell Jar are found. Master curator, Estee has the task of authenticating and auctioning them to the highest bidder. Will she be able to hold these objects without forging feelings of ownership? Told in three narratives, for any Plath/poetry fan it's a story worth reading. ~ Mary T. 

The Guncle by Steven Rowley

Laugh out loud funny, a very enjoyable and touching story. Extra points for being even better in audio format! ~Linnea S.

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

I'd seen this book on the NYT top 20 books for a long time and contemplated reading it but wasn't sure because it focused on a mother's death by cancer, which I've experienced. However, I'm glad I picked it up while waiting for a "hold" book to become available. It's so well written that it was not depressing or angry or self-involved. The writer, a Korean-American young woman who has strong ties to both cultures - particularly around food - navigates the many feelings that surface when one knows the death of a parent is coming without being maudlin. ~ Linda J.

Sisters of the Great War by Suzanne Feldman

Although high school history books fail to include the actions of women who answer the call to action in difficult times, novelists have stepped into that gap . this story, while fictional, gives us a sense of life as a female ambulance driver and a battlefield nurse in WWI. ~ Karen L.