Review: Role Playing by Cathy Yardley

Role Playing by Cathy Yardley

Publisher: Montlake

Publication Date: July 1, 2023

Library Purchase: YES 100% YES!!!

Synopsis

Maggie is an unapologetically grumpy forty-eight-year-old hermit. But when her college-aged son makes her a deal―he’ll be more social if she does the same―she can’t refuse. She joins a new online gaming guild led by a friendly healer named Otter. So that nobody gets the wrong idea, she calls herself Bogwitch.

Otter is Aiden, a fifty-year-old optimist using the guild as an emotional outlet from his family drama caring for his aging mother while his brother plays house with Aiden’s ex-fiancée.

Review: Don't Cry For Me

Don't Cry For Me by Daniel Black

Publisher: HarperCollins (Hanover Square Press)

Publication Date: January 10, 2023

Library Purchase: We bought it as a discussion set!

Synopsis

As Jacob lies dying, he begins to write a letter to his only son, Isaac. They have not met or spoken in many years, and there are things that Isaac must know. Stories about his ancestral legacy in rural Arkansas that extend back to slavery. Secrets from Jacob's tumultuous relationship with Isaac's mother and the shame he carries from the dissolution of their family. Tragedies that informed Jacob's role as a father and his reaction to Isaac's being gay.