Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

I

truly enjoyed this book even though it had some slow spots.  It's a family story that deals with four sisters contending with love and loss,  estrangement and tragedy, and finding ways to deal with each other under these difficult circumstances.

There are two sisters who are twins and the two others who are very closely aligned with each other until one of them marries (the wrong man) and the sisters become estranged for many years.  I won't give any spoilers!

The Kirkus Review is linked, and I agree with it all the way!

So glad I read this book!

I Have Some Questions for You by Rachael Makkai

 

I loved her book, "The Great Believers," and I liked this book, but it didn't match the other in my estimation. It seemed to move along too slowly for me.

The story takes place at a boarding school and goes back and forth in time, from past to present.  The protagonist, Bodie, was a student there many years ago when a murder took place on campus.  The murdered girl was Bodie's roommate, but they were not close.  There was a "resolution" as to who committed the crime, but Bodie questioned it from the start. She goes back to campus to teach a course (she has a successful podcast) on podcasting and one of her students decides to use this murder as the topic of her podcast.

Bodie has ideas as to what happened and who the murderer is, and she speculates throughout the book what could have happened.  The plot moves along somewhat slowly, but we learn a little more with each chapter.