Book Recommendations

Great Books I Read This Month!

Bookstack by Patty W Warren

Book Recommendations!

In June I read only a few books. It was quite a busy month with golf tournaments, lunches, Women’s Fiction Day Celebrations, WFWA’s Move You & Your Story Forward Virtual Conference, my Coastal Writers Meeting and Father’s Day. Whew, I get tired just thinking about it. But it was a wonderful month, and I have five days and a Dansforth & Friends Book Club meeting left!

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Let’s get to my book reviews!

Fission by Leslie Schover and Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall

Fission: A Novel of Atomic Heartbreak by Leslie Schover

An intimate view inside one couple’s marriage and building the atomic bomb during World War II. Doris and Rob marry young and are whisked into a pressure-filled life at Oak Ridge, Tennessee during the 1940’s. Rob has been recruited to work on part of the Manhattan Project. Doris is in love and married.

Doris has to drop out of college to support her husband and the nation. Her dreams are put on hold to have their first child and move to Tennessee to support Rob. She doesn’t like it and neither do her family, but she believes it’s a temporary setback. Doris is smart young wife, a talented pianist and so close to getting her college degree.

Oak Ridge is a pressure cooker. It tests their marriage, what Doris believes about herself and the very safety of the nation and the community building the bomb. She finds an unlikely friend in a snobbish, misinformed southern belle, Betty. After Betty realizes Doris isn’t what she’s been told about Jewish people, their friendship grows. They end up leaning on each other through tough times. That’s what friends do and Leslie portrays their friendship and the situation with poetic, relatable words.

Will Rob and Doris’ marriage survive? Will they be torn apart by the situation? Will Soviet spies steal their secrets? All parts of this amazing story, some of which is based on information from Leslie’s own parent’s life. You want to read Fission for yourself. This detailed account of one housewife’s life during the 1940’s comes with a side of thrilling espionage and romance. An Atomic 4.5 Stars!

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Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall

Broken Country opens with one of the best lines ever. We meet Beth and her kind husband, Frank. Their idyllic life, on their farm in the country village they call home, is shattered. We begin a journey to find out how and why. As Clare takes us through the past and present at the same time, we are fed bits of the Beth and Frank’s story. What we don’t know is who is on trial for what?

Beth fell in love quite young, but not with Frank, her husband, but with Gabriel. Gabriel turns out to be the local rich boy, with a big estate, a silver spoon and a horrid mother. But this is not going where you think it is. Are is it?

We’re introduced to Beth and Frank’s life, how Frank has loved Beth always and picked up the pieces when she and Gabriel broke up. You know this from the jacket cover, so no surprise, but how all this happens is a thrilling ride. The suspense does not stop there as we meet the other characters. Leo-Gabriel’s son; Bobby-Beth and Frank’s son; Jimmy-Frank’s brother and Nina-Frank’s wife. They pull and push us through this whirl of a book that will rip your heart out several times and put it together again. And the ending. No Words! A heart-pounding, soul-searching 5 Stars!

That’s the only two books I have for you this month, but both good choices for a beach or vacation read! What did you read in June?

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