

Review of The Box in the Woods (Truly Devious #4) by Maureen Johnson
The fourth mystery in Johnson's Truly Devious series delivers more smart, creative sleuthing from Stevie Bell and the gang, great...
Dec 8, 2022


Review of Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
Atkinson's newest mystery is set in vivid Roaring Twenties London as Nellie Coker struggles to hold on to her empire of clubs while...
Dec 7, 2022


November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite November reads! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: Renaissance-set historical fiction, two historical...
Dec 2, 2022


Review of Truly Devious (Truly Devious #1) by Maureen Johnson
ICYMI: This is the first in Johnson's young adult series, set in a boarding school in rural Vermont, with compelling past and present...
Dec 1, 2022


Review of The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken
McCracken straddles the line between novel and memoir in a work whose heart is a love letter to her extraordinary mother. The author...
Nov 29, 2022


Review of True Biz by Sara Nović
True Biz is a coming-of-age story, a beginner's primer on Deaf culture, and a captivating novel about romance, disappointment, fury, and...
Nov 23, 2022


Review of Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
Kevin Wilson's wonderfully odd 1990s coming-of-age novel centers around teens Frankie and Zeke, their mysterious artistic creation, and...
Nov 22, 2022


My Six Favorite Book Club Books of 2022
Book club love! These are my favorite book club reads from the past year. We also read Betty, We Are Not Like Them, All Her Little...
Nov 18, 2022


Review of The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
ICYMI: Graham Moore tells a historical fiction tale based on real events surrounding the rise of the light bulb--with compelling...
Nov 17, 2022


Review of A Restless Truth (Last Binding #2) by Freya Marske
The second book in Marske's series is an irresistible queer magical mystery thriller with Edwardian England details, racy encounters,...
Nov 16, 2022


Review of Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
ICYMI: Geraldine Brooks crafts a historical fiction story of 1666, a year in which disease, fear, and loss make way for redemption,...
Nov 15, 2022


Review of The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
I was hooked on the captivating details of Renaissance life, masterfully paced swirling danger and paranoia, and richly developed major...
Nov 10, 2022


Review of A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock #1) by Sherry Thomas
This first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery series offers not only an irresistible heroine, but a...
Nov 8, 2022


Review of Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks's Horse digs into issues of race across three timelines, linked by a special bond between an enslaved man and a horse in...
Nov 2, 2022


Review of Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan
Sink into this light-fiction escapism; Nora Goes Off Script is romantic and satisfying in its outlandishly satisfying resolutions,...
Nov 1, 2022


Review of Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Marcellus the octopus is the very deserving star of the show here, and being able to predict much of where the story was headed didn't...
Oct 27, 2022


Review of The Fire and the Ore by Olivia Hawker
Hawker offers irresistible details of daily life and historical elements that add vivid layers to this story of Utah Territory,...
Oct 25, 2022


Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
Hester is richly imagined historical fiction with connections to themes and characters from The Scarlet Letter. It's magical and...
Oct 19, 2022


Review of Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
In and among Sedaris's oddball, incisive, skewering observations are poignant, funny, heartfelt, complicated moments from his personal...
Oct 18, 2022


Review of The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
ICYMI: I loved being along for the ride with Moyes's five strong women characters as they traveled through the wilds of Kentucky in...
Oct 13, 2022
