

Review of The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
It's an excellent setup for a romantic comedy of a book with enough heartache that your teeth don't hurt from the sweetness.
Jul 8, 2020


Review of A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
In A Woman Is No Man, Rum explores the often powerless and voiceless status of her conservative Palestinian female characters.
Jul 8, 2020


Review of So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Oluo offers specific steps we can take toward "talk[ing] our way to understanding...and using that understanding to act."
Jul 7, 2020


Review of This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Authors El-Mohtar and Gladstone present rival elite agents, Red and Blue, who exist on opposite sides of an immense futuristic war.
Jul 5, 2020


Review of Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker is a fascinating, disturbing, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful book.
Jul 3, 2020


Review of When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald
Zelda has to figure out what it means to live her own legend. (I loved this book.)
Jun 27, 2020


Review of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
"A stirring call to conscience and consciousness in white brothers and sisters."
Jun 27, 2020


Review of Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
A compelling Gothic suspense story that keeps you guessing.
Jun 27, 2020


Review of Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
Kidd offers a creepy, dark mystery gloriously steeped in details of Victorian London and seedy, sordid characters, and heroes with heart.
Jun 22, 2020


Review of The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu
Lu layers a fantastical alternate fairy world over a framework of the imagined point of view of Wolfgang Mozart’s real sister.
Jun 19, 2020


Review of The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
This story imagines a wife for Jesus, questions gender roles, and offers adventure.
Jun 13, 2020


Review of The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell
A smart master thief who bends time and finds her loyalties dividded in turn-of-the-century New York.
Jun 9, 2020


Review of This Is All He Asks of You by Anne Egseth
Luna has a unique and lovely voice and is an irresistibly odd bird of a twelve-year-old girl.
Jun 7, 2020


Review of Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth
Sloane is a perfectly imperfect heroine and things aren't entirely what they seem in Roth's first novel for adults.
Jun 3, 2020


Review of Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland
Atlantic City before WWII, with its giant hotels, piers, and hubbub, is the backdrop for this summer in the life of an extended family.
May 26, 2020


Review of Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Miller is a beautiful, powerful writer with clear arguments and a compelling story of her own.
May 24, 2020


Review of Hard Cash Valley by Brian Panowich
In “Hard Cash Valley,” we spend page time with small-time drug dealers, cockfighting masterminds, Filipino gangsters, and crooked police.
May 14, 2020


Review of The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
Macintyre presents a wonderfully paced and skillfully recounted Cold War-era story of spy intrigue, paranoia, bravery, and twists and turns.
May 14, 2020


Review of Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell by Tom Clavin
Clavin's nonfiction book "Tombstone" traces the tensions and factors as they build to pivotal events that make Tombstone live on in infamy.
May 13, 2020


Review of A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
Veronica is a strong and unorthodox main protagonist who finds herself entangled in a dangerous set of circumstances.
May 11, 2020
