WickedGirl's Book Notes

A masterful collection of mythological tales exploring themes of transformation, love, and power through the lens of Roman poetry. Ovid weaves together over 250 stories from Greek and Roman mythology into an epic narrative.

Audrey Niffenegger's 2003 debut: a love story between Henry DeTamble - a Chicago librarian with a genetic disorder she calls Chrono-Displacement that pulls him involuntarily through his own timeline and other people's, naked and out of clothes he cannot take with him - and Clare Abshire, the artist he meets in person at twenty-eight at the Newberry Library, who has known him since she was six because he has been visiting her in the meadow behind her family's South Haven house from a future version of himself for fourteen years already by the time she finally meets him in his own present.

Amy Schumer delivers brutally honest essays about relationships, body image, and growing up, combining her signature humor with surprising vulnerability and insight into modern womanhood.

The first Detective Josie Quinn novel: a seventeen-year-old named Isabelle Coleman vanishes from the small Pennsylvania town of Denton, and the suspended detective who shouldn't be working the case finds a second girl - mute, traumatized, and able to give up only one name, Ramona - whose neon tongue piercing matches Isabelle's, pulling Josie into a cold case the department had filed away as a hoax.

An exploration of the science behind habit formation and change, examining how habits work in individual lives, organizations, and societies. Duhigg combines neuroscience research with compelling case studies.

Susan Wiggs' 2001 contemporary romance about Michelle Turner, who at seventeen was sent to her Hollywood-icon father's Montana ranch, fell for the ranch hand Sam McPhee, got him fired and his family destroyed when her father found out, and fled to Seattle pregnant - and who returns to Montana seventeen years later to donate a kidney to her dying father, with the rebellious teenage son Sam doesn't know about in the passenger seat.