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BOOK OF THE MONTH: MARCH






Dear FictionAddicts,

Say hello to March.  It's so hot these days it feels like we are in a oven baking. I really can't wait for the rains and heavy downpours. 

I’m sure you had as much pleasant time as I did reading the last two books of the month. This month we will read The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman and The Wives by Tarryn Fisher.

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

Nina Hill is a young woman supremely confident in her own... shell. The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading she just shrugs and picks up a new book. 

When the father she never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces and nephews , Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They’re all or mostly all excited to meet her! She’’ll have to Speak. To. Strangers. It’s a disaster! 

And as if that wasn’t enough, Tom, her Trivia nemesis, has turned out to be cute, funny, and deeply interested in getting to know her. Doesn’t he realize what a terrible idea that is? 

Nina considers her options.
  1. Completely change her name and appearance (Too drastic, plus she like her hair).
  2.  Flee to a deserted island. (Hard pass, see: coffee).
  3.   Hide in a corner of her apartment and rock back and forth (Already doing it).

It’s time for Nina to come out of her comfortable shell, but she isn’t convinced real life could ever live up to fiction. It’s going to take her brand-new family, a persistent suitor, and the combined effects of ice cream and trivia to make turn her own fresh page.

Quotes from The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
  •         “If you're not scared, you’re not brave”.
  •     Do you know the best feeling in the world?” “Uh…” Nina shook her head, despite having some ideas. Liz glowed. “ It’s reading a book, loving every second of it, then turning to the front and discovering that the writer wrote fourteen zillion others.  
  • "Tomorrow would be better. At the very least, tomorrow would be different”.
  •    Then don’t borrow trouble from tomorrow, baby. Don’t worry about how it might go wrong, just let yourself be happy.

You can download a copy of  The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, here


The Wives by Tarryn Fisher

Imagine that your husband has two other wives.

You’ve never met  the other wives. None of you know each other, and because  of this unconventional arrangement, you can see your husband only one day a week. But you love him so much that you don’t care. Or at least that’s what you’ve told yourself.

But one day, while you’re doing laundry, you find a scrap of paper in his pocket- an appointment reminder for a woman named Hannah, and you just know it’s another of the wives.

You thought you were fine with your arrangement, but you can’t help yourself: you track her down and, under false pretenses you strike up a friendship. Hannah has no idea who you really are. 

Then Hannah starts showing up to your coffee dates with telltale bruises, and you realize she’s being abused by your husband. But you’ve never known him to be violent, ever.

Who actually is your husband, and how far would you  go to find the truth? Would you risk your own life?

And who is his mysterious third wife?

You can download a copy of The Wives, here

That’s all folks. Get to it and remember to take every precaution to  protect yourself from the corona virus.

Love, kisses and cupcakes
FictionAddict.

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