September - 2021

Sep 30, 2021

September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite books from September! These are the books I most loved reading during the past month. I included two titles from my...

Sep 29, 2021

Review of When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash

I loved Cash's Eastern North Carolina setting, the character of Sherriff Winston Barnes, and the pulsing racial, class-based, and family...

Sep 28, 2021

Review of Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

In this memoir, Ford shares how she navigated an unforgiving childhood and complicated relationships with her volatile mother and her...

Sep 27, 2021

Review of Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Zauner takes unflinching looks at her family, herself, and her future, all while exploring the rich flavors, traditions, and challenges...

Sep 24, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/24/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Anthony Doerr's upcoming literary fiction tale of interconnected characters that spans centuries,...

Sep 23, 2021

Review of Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson

This literary fiction from Ash Davidson is wonderfully wrought, with lots of tense undercurrents, heartbreaking situations, and few, if...

Sep 22, 2021

Review of The Story Thieves (Story Thieves #1) by James Riley

Riley has crafted a middle-grade fantasy book with humor, adventure, characters to root for, and heart and depth that surprised me. I'll...

Sep 21, 2021

Review of The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

Johnson offers a wonderfully imperfect heroine and her fascinating journeys through the multiverse, her various lives, and her alternate...

Sep 20, 2021

Review of The Guncle by Steven Rowley

The Guncle is full of heart and humor, quirky family love, and fun references to musicals and movies--yet Rowley also offers poignancy,...

Sep 17, 2021

Review of Circe by Madeline Miller

ICYMI: My recent review of Natalie Haynes's entertaining A Thousand Ships brought to mind this wonderful title by Madeline Miller that I...

Sep 16, 2021

Review of A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes's mythological retellings put women at the center of many scenes surrounding the Trojan War. I was highly entertained by...

Sep 15, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/15/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Wiley Cash's upcoming Southern mystery, When Ghosts Come Home; A Thousand Ships, Natalie Haynes's...

Sep 14, 2021

Review of Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

Emiko Jean's young adult light fiction is delightful, youthful, sometimes wonderfully silly, and heartwarming. The irresistible premise...

Sep 13, 2021

Review of Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig

Haig is vulnerable and specific in his short memoir about his own experiences with mental illness and depression--and he shares the small...

Sep 10, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/10/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Guncle, Steven Rowley's sassy, heartwarming fiction about an uncle caring for his young niece...

Sep 9, 2021

Review of Red Notice by Bill Browder

Browder takes the reader deep into the intrigue and terror of the corrupt Russian political and business systems he uncovered. Despite...

Sep 8, 2021

Review of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

ICYMI: In Matt Haig's How to Stop Time, main protagonist Tom Hazard lives for centuries but is not allowed to fall in love. When he...

Sep 7, 2021

Review of Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #2) by Holly Jackson

In Holly Jackson's young adult mystery sequel, we revisit the brave, faulted, irresistible character of Pippa Fitz-Amobi, who is drawn...

Sep 6, 2021

Review of What Doesn't Kill You by Tessa Miller

Miller outlines many of the frightening, difficult, relentless aspects of coping with a chronic illness. She lays a journalistic view...

Sep 3, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/3/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Emiko Jean's Tokyo Ever After, in which Japanese-American teen Izumi Tanaka discovers that her...

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