LYNN M. ANDREWS

“As the years passed, we barely spoke of the mountains we call home. Spoken even rarer these days, but always there, the longing could not stay silenced.” - Cussy, The Mountains We Call Home The Mountains We Call Home is the third installment in Kim Michele Richardson’s The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek series. The novel takes place between the early 1950’s and the late 1960’s. Cussy, a Pack Horse Librarian in the mountains of Kentucky, lives with a genetic condition call

An absorbing and dark look at what happens when a life long dream turns into a complicated ride where past actions still strongly impact current events.

" And so I say to you, my friends and neighbors, followers of Christ and those not, if you would honor the memory of Gamez Theophilus Zilavez, then do good, bestow kindness, strive for beauty, seek and find the river that leads to life everlasting, and draw from the fountain that never runs dry. Like Theo did. " -Father Lundy, Theo of Golden Theo of Golden by Allen Levi was our bookclub's February read. It is a deeply reflective, character-driven novel about Theo, a

His mom always told him that stories were magic. Moms only tell the truth.

Isola is a novel based on a real woman, Marguerite de la Rocque, who was marooned on an island as punishment for falling in love with a man her guardian didn't approve of. This book wasn’t what I expected—its heavy emphasis on religion shapes nearly every part of the story. Characters are urged to submit to God and fear retribution for defiance. This reinforces the societal norms of the 1500s, where a woman’s place was strictly controlled: she was not to acknowledge her own

As a new year begins, I’m curious—what kind of reading are you hoping for right now?

There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak is an expansive historical fiction story woven together using an ancient civilization, one of the oldest poems in literature, two major rivers and a single drop of water as the threads.

The Wedding People by Alison Espach is a character-driven novel set in a seaside hotel in Newport, Rhode Island.

Using literature to help improve mental health harkens back thousands of years.

For stories set in a specific location. I will add to this continuously so stop back often to see where I have, in a literary fashion, traveled! And yes, I have read all of these titles :)