

Review of The Awakening: The Dragon Heart Legacy #1 by Nora Roberts
I listened to this romantic fantasy about a chosen one, a long-lost family, portals to a magical world, and a treasure of a best...
Mar 8, 2022


Review of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Nagamatsu's science fiction centers around a resurgence of an ancient Arctic plague. These interconnected stories are odd, fascinating,...
Mar 3, 2022


Review of The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith
I enjoyed the glimpses of Alaska and peeks into Greta's musical inspirations and aspirations, although I remained confused about why her...
Mar 2, 2022


February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite books from February! Here are my favorite reads of the past month, in no particular order: No Cure for Being Human, a...
Mar 1, 2022


Review of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (As Told to Me) Story by Bess Kalb
This is an irresistible tribute to Kalb's funny, opinionated, fiercely loving grandmother--a granddaughter's best friend and a wise and...
Feb 24, 2022


Review of The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart
This Depression-era-set historical fiction story tracks characters in intensely difficult situations as they successfully fight for...
Feb 23, 2022


Review of Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi
This peek into a childhood in Kabul and a lifetime of searching and yearning is luminous and vivid in Hashimi's hands. What will this...
Feb 18, 2022


Review of One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
ICYMI: North Carolina author Rash offers a fascinating, Appalachian-set mystery told from various points of view with a Southern gothic...
Feb 17, 2022


Review of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
Hard work, interest, and commitment are essential to achievement, and Duckworth traces her research and offers interviews with various...
Feb 16, 2022


Review of One Step Too Far (Frankie Elkin #2) by Lisa Gardner
The heart of the mystery the emotionally tortured Frankie uncovers in the wilds of Wyoming in One Step Too Far includes heart-stopping...
Feb 15, 2022


Review of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Andy Weir offers the fascinating story of a desperate space mission, creative innovation, and enduring optimism, with an enormous amount...
Feb 11, 2022


Review of Out of Love by Hazel Hayes
I loved the idea of a relationship story told in reverse, but Out of Love touched on weighty topics that seemed to warrant deeper...
Feb 10, 2022


Review of Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner
Faulkner's debut mystery is twisty and turny, with various potential bad seeds and complications--and it ends in a satisfying whirl of...
Feb 9, 2022


Review of My Heart Went Walking by Sally Hanan
Hanan's 1980s Irish coming-of-age story is full of angst, secrets, life-and-death danger, youthful determination--and the feeling that...
Feb 8, 2022


Review of The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
Bryson's examination of the human body, its processes, its wonders, and its limitations is surprising, illuminating, and wonderful. “We...
Feb 3, 2022


Review of No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler
Touching, honest, raw, funny, and full of gritty reflections about life and faith, this was a read that I absolutely adored and gave five...
Feb 1, 2022


Review of The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan
Mark Sullivan explores a gripping, detailed, life-and-death period in the life of an ethnically German family at the end of World War II...
Jan 27, 2022


Review of Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James
In Admissions, Kendra James explores race, friendship, ambition, and the absurdities and rhythm of daily life during her time at a New...
Jan 26, 2022


Review of Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves by Meg Long
I was hooked by Meg Long's debut young adult science fiction novel about tough young Sena, her skittish fighting wolf Iska, and their...
Jan 25, 2022


Review of A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers #1) by Alex White
The first in Alex White's Salvagers space opera series offers diverse characters, strong women, a heist setup, and, ultimately, a ragtag...
Jan 20, 2022
