October - 2021

Oct 29, 2021

October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite books from October! These are the books I most loved reading during the past month. I included an immersive memoir...

Oct 28, 2021

Review of Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

Klune's newest novel is heartwarming, earnest, light, and sweet, with a vision of an in-between afterlife that is surprisingly romantic,...

Oct 27, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/27/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Sally Rooney's newest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You; the brilliant Isabel Wilkerson's...

Oct 26, 2021

Review of The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

The Paper Palace is atmospheric and often disturbing. I didn't understand many of the characters' motivations or reasoning so didn't feel...

Oct 25, 2021

Review of Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

I love Elizabeth Strout's books, but I didn't feel connected to the character of Lucy or her ruminations in Oh William! the way I did in...

Oct 22, 2021

Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore

More Memoirs I've Loved I find a good memoir irresistible, whether it's made up of key moments from the life of someone unknown to me or...

Oct 21, 2021

Review of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Jackson's gothic horror tale is made all the more frightening by its reliance on terror, shadows, and mystery. This was a wonderfully...

Oct 20, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/20/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading What You Can See From Here, Mariana Leky's novel about loss, grief, and change when a small village...

Oct 19, 2021

Review of Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Main protagonist Gifty's journey was full of challenges and not too easy or complete, and her voice had me hooked throughout Yaa Gyasi's...

Oct 18, 2021

Review of The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2) by Naomi Novik

This second book in Naomi Novik's Scholomance series builds on book one's dark humor, dangerous forces, and the irresistible attraction...

Oct 15, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/15/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Paper Palace, Miranda Cowley Heller's novel about a middle-aged woman exploring other...

Oct 14, 2021

Review of So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

So Long, See You Tomorrow is gorgeous, heartbreaking, and feels timeless. I loved it. My friend James mentioned this book as a favorite...

Oct 13, 2021

Review of The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz

ICYMI: This young adult historical fiction story was a five-star read for me. I adored it. “My books promised me that life wasn’t just...

Oct 12, 2021

Review of The Project by Courtney Summers

Summers's young adult fiction begins with a fascinating premise--sisters are torn apart by tragedy and then further separated by a...

Oct 11, 2021

Review of Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

Rooney plunges the reader into uncomfortably claustrophobic and microscopically examined moments in Conversations with Friends I listened...

Oct 8, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/8/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney's book about a young poet hyper-focused on her...

Oct 7, 2021

Review of Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land was a complex, heartbreaking, hope-filled, surprising, fascinating read. Forgetting, he is learning, is how the...

Oct 6, 2021

Review of Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile

In Broken Horses, Brandi Carlile shares a beautifully open, poignant, tough, rich, gorgeous account of her life and career so far. The...

Oct 5, 2021

Review of Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey

I delighted in the way Teddy and Everett shared pieces of their true oddball, vulnerable, silly, thoughtful selves. This was a...

Oct 4, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/4/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Broken Horses, Brandi Carlile's unflinching, fascinating memoir about her music, her influences,...

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