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What Alice Forgot

"Maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums." Author: Liane Moriarty After a gym accident, Alice has forgotten ten years of her life. She entered the gym as a forty-year-old, soon-to-be divorced mom of three who was happily dating, career-oriented, and known for her overly organized take-charge attitude, fancy dresses and heels, and abrasive attitude. She exited having lost a decade, thinking that she was 29, newly married and pregnant, adoring sweatpants and chocolate, a little mousy, looking for the comfort of her husband and shocked to discover that everything has fallen apart – including her [...]

Frances Carden2025-12-24T11:18:38-07:00December 24th, 2025|Tags: book review, drama, fiction, Liane Moriarty, read, reading, What Alice Forgot|

Prince Caspian

"If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been proof that you were not.” Author: C.S. Lewis I’m finally doing it – reading in my late 30s what everyone else read in their childhood: the Chronicles of Narnia series. I just finished the second (or fourth, depending on the order you prefer to read them in) book in the series: Prince Caspian. In Prince Caspian Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter are ushered back to Narnia. One minute, they’re sitting in a train station, waiting to go off for another school year. Narnia is a distant memory. Perhaps something that was [...]

Frances Carden2025-12-15T20:33:53-07:00December 15th, 2025|Tags: book review, C.S. Lewis, Christian, fiction, read, reading|

Raptor Red

“Survival is the only true measure of success.” Author: Robert T. Bakker Getting involved in the excitement of Jurassic Park: Rebirth reminded me of my undying love of all things dinosaurs, which started in my childhood when I saw the first Jurassic Park movie on a rainy night in a drive-in in Memphis. With equal parts nostalgia and continued obsession, I started to go through my library, looking at books that I’d bought with extreme excitement and just never gotten around to reading. I finally read and adored Footprints of Thunder and then, there it was, the discarded library book copy [...]

Frances Carden2025-12-01T11:57:08-07:00December 1st, 2025|Tags: book review, dinosaurs, fiction, raptor, read, reading, utah raptor, velociraptor|