[Book Review] The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig

Nix has spent her entire life aboard her father’s ship, sailing across the centuries, across the world, across myth and imagination.

As long as her father has a map for it, he can sail to any time, any place, real or imagined: nineteenth-century China, the land from One Thousand and One Nights, a mythic version of Africa. Along the way they have found crewmates and friends, and even a disarming thief who could come to mean much more to Nix.

But the end to it all looms closer every day.

Her father is obsessed with obtaining the one map, 1868 Honolulu, that could take him back to his lost love, Nix’s mother. Even though getting it—and going there—could erase Nix’s very existence.

For the first time, Nix is entering unknown waters.

She could find herself, find her family, find her own fantastical ability, her own epic love.

[Book Review] Landline by Rainbow Rowell

Georgie McCool's marriage is having issues, even if she's not ready to admit it. She loves her husband Neal, and he loves her, but she's worried that isn't enough. Two days before their Christmas trip to Omaha to visit Neal's family, Georgie tells him she cannot go. She's a TV writer, and something's come up on her show which means she must stay in Los Angeles. She knows Neal will be upset but she doesn't expect him to pack up the kids and go on the trip without her. That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. It's not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she's been given a chance to fix her marriage before it starts. Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened?