- 5 days ago
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...
- Jul 9
My Very Favorite 2021 Reads So Far
My very favorite reads so far this year! I post a monthly wrap-up of my favorite reads, but now that 2021 is halfway over, it feels like...
- Jun 30
June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite books from June! Here's the gist of each of the books I most loved reading during the past month, in the order in which...
- Jun 16
Review of The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
ICYMI: This is excellent, layered historical fiction with memorable characters and a great big story to dive into on a hot summer's day....
- May 14
Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War
The Civil War Books This painful, terrible time in our nation's history makes for some poignant, brutal, often beautiful storytelling....
- May 7
Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite
It's time for the foooood books! The shout-out: this Greedy Reading List theme was suggested by my lovely longtime friend, fellow book...
- Apr 9
Six Powerful Memoirs About Facing Mortality
Are you intrigued by reflections on life and death? This is a departure from many of my other Greedy Reading Lists: witchy books, young...
- Mar 26
Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
Do you love witchy books like I do? I love a good witch-focused book, and I've been wanting to put together a Greedy Reading List on this...
- Mar 19
Six Fantastic Stand-Alone Young Adult Books
Aren't young adult books just the best? Young adult is one of my favorite genres to read for fun and to edit. The main protagonists are...
- Mar 15
Review of I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
A book I loved, in case you missed it! O’Farrell’s meditations on the precious nature of life felt new, honest, raw, and fascinating. We...
- Feb 19
Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II
01 The Skylark's Secret by Fiona Valpy The Skylark's Secret has a dual timeline; the story is set in rural Scotland during World War II...
- Feb 5
Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love
01 The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden This is an ancient-feeling, dark fairy tale of a story that takes place within a small...
- Jan 29
Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West
01 Inland by Téa Obreht Much of Téa Obreht's Inland is centered around Nora, an impulsive, hot-tempered, strong woman fighting for a...
- Jan 16
Review of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
A book I loved, in case you missed it! Jesuits in space find extraterrestrial life--and explore the limits of their faith. This is unlike...
- Jan 15
Six Book Club Books I Loved Last Year
01 Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout Oh, Olive! In Olive, Again, she ambles through town and reflects on aging, on her life, and...
- Jan 7
Review of When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine by Monica Wood
A book I loved, in case you missed it: Wood's memoir is captivating and lovely, poignant, sweet without being overly sentimental, and...
- Oct 2, 2020
Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year
01 Say Nothing 02 Just Mercy 03 The Spy and the Traitor 04 Catch and Kill 05 White Fragility 06 Hidden Valley Road
- Sep 18, 2020
Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year
01 Leaving the Witness In Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life, Amber Scorah takes the reader into her confidences...
- Aug 20, 2020
Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels
01 A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World And there may be no law left except what you make of it, but if you steal my dog, you can at...
- 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."