At first glance, this is a novel about love, heartbreak, and second chances. Annika and Jonathan were college sweethearts who planned a future together, however, they soon discover that life doesn’t always go as planned and they go their separate ways. Ten years later they reunite. Both a little wiser, they make a second attemptContinue reading “The Girl He Used to Know”
Author Archives: Janet
The Girls
Author: Cline, Emma Title: The Girls Publisher: New York: Random House, 2016 Available as an audiobook: yes Set in California in the summer of 1969, The Girls is a story about 14-year-old Evie who is disenchanted with her middle-class life, boys, parents, and friends. Desperately seeking connection, she falls under the influence of Suzanne andContinue reading “The Girls”
My Dark Vanessa
This novel is about the long term fallout from a relationship between 15-year-old Vanessa and her forty-something English teacher. Alternating between the younger Vanessa and the adult Vanessa, we are drawn into her world as she tries to make sense of her life, legitimize the relationship, and create a version of events so as notContinue reading “My Dark Vanessa”
Janet Koops 