Tag: Memory
Forgetting Time
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2016/11/07/forgetting-time/
Title: The Forgetting Time Author: Sharon Guskin Publisher: Flatiron Books, February 2016 Summary/Review: A gripping and dramatic novel about holding on to – and letting go of – memories. Janie is doing her best to raise her son Noah as a single mom, but...
What Alice Forgot
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2016/04/21/what-alice-forgot/
Title: What Alice Forgot Author: Liane Moriarty Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books, 2011; Penguin Audio, 2011 Summary/Review: After taking a tumble off a spinning bike and being knocked unconscious, Alice Love awakes thinking it’s 1998 and that she’s 29 expecting her first child. What a...
Mimi Malloy, At Last
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2014/05/22/mimi-malloy-at-last/
Title: Mimi Malloy, At Last Author: Julia MacDonnell Publisher: Picador, April 2014 Summary/Review: Mimi Malloy, divorced and newly retired is settling into the twilight of her life. Her sisters and six daughters are ever present in her life and believe that her memory may...
Brain Rules
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2008/08/25/brain-rules/
Title: Brain Rules Author: John Medina Publisher: Pear Press, March 2008 Summary: “If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to...