

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 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 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


My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads
01 The Vanishing Half 02 Florence Adler Swims Forever 03 Blacktop Wasteland 04 Utopia Avenue 05 When These Mountains Burn 06 This Is All He
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...
Aug 20, 2020


Review of The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
The Boy on the Bridge offers adventure, twists, turns, love, scientific exploration, betrayal, and an odd twist on hope.
Aug 17, 2020


Review of My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
This first book in the Lady Janies trilogy is funny, and smart, with clever asides, wonderful character development, and fantastic banter.
Aug 11, 2020


Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love
01 Ink & Sigil: Ink & Sigil Series In this first book of Kevin Hearne's new Ink & Sigil series, patterns and inks have power; hobgoblins...
Aug 10, 2020


Review of When These Mountains Burn by David Joy
Joy offers an often dark work of Southern literary fiction in which bubbles of hope emerge.
Jul 23, 2020


Review of Exit Strategy (Murderbot #4) by Martha Wells
Murderbot is a part-organic robot who continues to be inconveniently and fiercely loyal to certain humans.
Jul 19, 2020


Review of Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
Bug is forced to consider what loyalty means, and he must face a potentially dark path ahead.
Jul 18, 2020


Review of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Things don't all work out too easily in Hendrix's Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, but courage is satisfyingly rewarded.
Jul 16, 2020


Review of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
In The Vanishing Half, Bennett explores the complicated implications of perception as reality when it comes to race.
Jul 15, 2020


Review of Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Mitchell expertly builds the band members into rich characters you're rooting for. More very welcome David Mitchell universe madness.
Jul 14, 2020


Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes
Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes
Jul 14, 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 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
