- May 24
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/24/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a light fiction book about a dedicated single mom who gives love another try, listening to a...
- May 17
Review of Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched, witchy, historical thriller with fantastic details of the time. Bohjalian's newest book,...
- May 4
Review of Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre
Ursula Burton, an unassuming mother and wife, was a legendary real-life spy who evaded capture by China, the Nazis, MI6, and the FBI. She...
- May 3
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/3/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher's memoir focused on the early Star Wars years (and,...
- Mar 11
Review of Outlawed by Anna North
North provides intrigue, an exploration of gender and power roles, tales of unconventional friendship, and enough shoot-outs and danger...
- Mar 9
Review of The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
There is so much to unpack here; Evans's story themes are often haunting, always powerful, and wonderfully nuanced. She thought the...
- Feb 16
Review of A Burning by Megha Majumdar
There's enough injustice and crooked dealing in this captivating book to fully enrage a reader, yet the tone of Majumdar's debut title...
- Feb 9
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/9/21 Edition
01 Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton Eli Bell is a young man in a tough spot. His father's gone, his mother's in jail, and his best...
- Feb 4
Review of The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
I was especially taken with the sisters' complicated relationships and with the link Harrow draws between witching and the women's...
- Jan 26
Review of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Evaristo offers a set of twelve interconnected stories about Black women in contemporary Britain and their friendships, loves, struggles,...
- Jan 22
Six Great Books about the Immigrant Experience
01 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee In the early 1900s, a teenager falls for a silver-tongued stranger on the coast of Korea. But when the...
- Jan 18
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/18/21 Edition
01 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Evaristo won the Booker Prize in 2019 for this novel, which I'm listening to as an audiobook...
- Jan 12
Review of Untamed by Glennon Doyle
I love Glennon's heart and her honesty, but many of these essays ended too soon for me. Doyle, the bestselling author of Carry On,...
- Jan 5
Review of Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas
Here For It is refreshing and playful yet thoughtful. I loved spending time with the uproariously funny Thomas. In Here for It: Or, How...
- Dec 30, 2020
Review of Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford
Crawford's memoir lays bare systemic lies, gross injustices, horrifying abuses of privilege and power, and longstanding patterns of...
- Dec 28, 2020
Review of The Empress by Laura Martinez-Belli
In the story of tragic Carlota, each turn of events was more ill-fated and darker than the next, all barreling toward ruin and...
- Dec 15, 2020
Review of I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Brown shares moments of reckoning, everyday evidence of yawning racial divides, and her insistent joy in embracing her black identity and...
- Dec 14, 2020
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/20 Edition
01 Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford Crawford thought the trauma of her assault at St. Paul's boarding school decades...
- Dec 9, 2020
Review of The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens by Chris DeRose
Nothing happened in McMinn County unless the corrupt Machine profited by it...until the local GIs returned home from World War II and...
- Dec 2, 2020
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/2/20 Edition
01 The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens by Chris DeRose The young men of McMinn County, Tennessee, are coming home after fighting in...
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