The first in the author's young adult steampunk Finishing School series offers wonderful, typically strong Carriger women with unique...

The main male protagonist was off-putting to me in his arrogance at first, but Carley Fortune is the best at developing a lakeside...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the first in Gail Carriger's young adult steampunk mystery Finishing School series, Etiquette...

A Varied List of Maine Books I was recently visiting my old stomping grounds in Maine for a whirlwind trip to see family, and I started...

Galland offers a detailed peek into the London of Shakespeare's company and the life of starring "boy player" Alexander Cooke, his best...

I was intrigued by the novel's premise, in which a father weaves elaborate lies to raise his daughter in a remote wilderness, away from...

Molly Jong-Fast's frank memoir explores her complicated, unsatisfying relationship with her famous mother Erica as she faces...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Slow Burn Summer , Josie Silver's newest rom-com, in which a divorced actress is hired to play the...

My very favorite Bossy June reads! These were my favorite reads in June. I had several literary fiction reads, a dystopian fantasy, and a...

Knapp's novel explores three life paths for a set of characters, all set into motion by the naming of the youngest child--whimsical,...

Carr's newest novel is a captivating series of character studies within a tightly knit Irish seaside community in the late 1900s. While...

While I probably should stop reading "romantasy" because I prefer my fantasy and romance to remain separate, I was taken with the...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the novel The Names , Florence Knapp's exploration of three possible futures stemming from three...

Royalty, Intrigue, and Magically Wonderful Stories It's tough to fall in love with the first book in a series and then twiddle thumbs...

O Caledonia is a modern classic, literary fiction that encompasses darkly funny passages and tragic consequences set against a gloomy...

I loved Sunny's body positivity and her self-made-woman status. I didn't fully buy into one of her love interests but was hooked on the...

I loved the premise, in which a golden girl and barrel-racer returns home to small-town Wyoming to figure out her future. I was looking...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Molly Jong-Fast's memoir about her tumultuous relationship with her mother and other challenges,...

The Summer Favorites These titles aren't classic, light "summer reads," but they were my favorite reads from a summer past, and they all...

Ocean Vuong's literary fiction offers unexpected bonds between characters coping with desperation, addiction, lies, hunger, and past...