

Review of The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
Wizenberg struggles to reconcile her identity, sexuality, love, and duty into an honest lifestyle.
Oct 12, 2020


Review of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #1) by Holly Jackson
I read this young adult mystery in a day, it was so good. Pippa and Ravi are great characters--I'll definitely read the others in the series
Oct 6, 2020


Review of Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees
Rees does an excellent job of taking us through Edith's amateur spy struggle and provides fascinating details of life in WWII Germany.
Oct 5, 2020


Review of Boys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein
Young men share their experiences with intimacy, yearn to explore love, relationships, and evolved masculinity.
Oct 1, 2020


Review of The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
This is a spooky, atmospheric, gothic Victorian ghost story perfect for the season.
Sep 30, 2020


Review of Deadly Waters by Dot Hutchison
Deadly Waters was not the book I thought it was going to be. It's a revenge fantasy, but the issues at the heart of the story are weighty.
Sep 28, 2020


Review of The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
Donoghue immersed me so fully in this world that everything else fell away for me. Set in Ireland in 1918, The Pull of the Stars follows...
Sep 25, 2020


Review of Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
This is sexy, sweet, great escapism from Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings.
Sep 23, 2020


Review of Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
I loved this book. If you're in for a new character-driven, superhero-focused, smart, wicked, and action-packed book, this is it.
Sep 21, 2020


Review of Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
I love Jiles's richly imagined historical fiction, and I'm in for her other books.
Sep 17, 2020


Review of Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
Some aspects of Surrender Your Sons felt deeply real and intimate, but I couldn't get past the details that didn't fit.
Sep 14, 2020


Review of A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir by Colin Jost
Colin Jost retraces his journey toward and through his fifteen seasons at Saturday Night Live and offers insights that I found absorbing.
Sep 13, 2020


Review of Beach Read by Emily Henry
Beach Read is a gem for your light fiction-escapism-pandemic-era reading list.
Sep 10, 2020


Review of Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson
Robots, time travel, teen angst, and this gorgeous cover. Yes to all of this. I didn't anticipate the great twists Johnson provides.
Sep 9, 2020


Review of Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
Harvey emphasizes the urgency of the need for change and offers age-appropriate examples to help build young advocates equipped to work...
Sep 4, 2020


Review of The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
This is charming, with quirky characters, but it felt like a middle-grade book to me.
Sep 2, 2020


Review of Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne
The playful and absurd are presented as everyday occurrences, and supernatural events are regularly intermingled with sassy detective work.
Aug 30, 2020


Review of Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel by Martha Wells
This one was slow going in the middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this series is perfect science-fiction e
Aug 29, 2020


Review of Soulless by Gail Carriger
I loooved this witty, romantic, action-packed steampunk novel--the first in a series--from Gail Carriger.
Aug 27, 2020


Review of Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis
ear Emmie Blue is satisfying, heartwarming escapism without inspiring any irritation at too-convenient or outlandish events.
Aug 26, 2020