Welcome to Reads and Recovery, a unique and enriching segment of the podcast where literature meets personal growth. Here’s how you can join this transformative experience:
- Join the Discussion: After you’ve listened to or read the book of the month, join the discussion. Share your insights, reflections, and how the book’s themes relate to your own experiences at rachel@recoverydailypodcast.com or submit your comments here on the contact page.
- Quarterly Book Selection: Each quarter, we choose a book that resonates with themes of recovery, self-discovery, and personal resilience. These carefully selected reads aim to inspire, challenge, and accompany you on your journey of healing and self-growth.
- Interactive Sessions: Look out for our monthly interactive posts on social media. These can include guided group reflections. These sessions are designed to deepen your understanding of the book and its relevance to your personal journey.
- Contribute to the Reading List: Feel inspired? Submit your suggestion for book of the month. Selected contributions will be featured on our Reads and Recovery segment.
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Reads and Recovery is a journey of collective healing and sharing through the power of literature. I’m excited to have you join me in this enriching experience where every page turned is a step forward in our journey of recovery.
Q1 Book – 5 Tail Wags!
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Next Up: Haven Point: A Novel By: Virginia Hume
Recovery Readometer
Here’s a view of our Recovery Readometer scale for your reference:
1 Bark – Not really engaging, but had a couple of interesting moments.
2 Wiggles – A pleasant read with some enjoyable parts.
3 Woofs – Engaging and enjoyable, a solid read.
4 Paws – Really loved this book; it was hard to put down.
5 Tail Wags – An all-time favorite, resonated deeply on a personal level.
Q2 Book
The Girl on the Train
EVERY DAY THE SAME
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.
UNTIL TODAY
And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel goes to the police. But is she really as unreliable as they say? Soon she is deeply entangled not only in the investigation but in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?
Q3 Book
By: Virginia Hume Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
1944: Maren Larsen is a blonde beauty from a small Minnesota farming town, determined to do her part to help the war effort––and to see the world beyond her family’s cornfields. As a cadet nurse at Walter Reed Medical Center, she’s swept off her feet by Dr. Oliver Demarest, a handsome Boston Brahmin whose family spends summers in an insular community on the rocky coast of Maine.
1970: As the nation grapples with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam, Oliver and Maren are grappling with their fiercely independent seventeen-year-old daughter, Annie, who has fallen for a young man they don’t approve of. Before the summer is over a terrible tragedy will strike the Demarests––and in the aftermath, Annie vows never to return to Haven Point.
2008: Annie’s daughter, Skye, has arrived in Maine to help scatter her mother’s ashes. Maren knows that her granddaughter inherited Annie’s view of Haven Point: despite the wild beauty and quaint customs, the regattas and clambakes and sing-alongs, she finds the place––and the people––snobbish and petty. But Maren also knows that Annie never told Skye the whole truth about what happened during that fateful summer.
Over seven decades of a changing America, through wars and storms, betrayals and reconciliations, Virginia Hume’s Haven Point explores what it means to belong to a place, and to a family, which holds as tightly to its traditions as it does its secrets.