- Oct 11, 2021
Review of Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Rooney plunges the reader into uncomfortably claustrophobic and microscopically examined moments in Conversations with Friends I listened...
- Sep 29, 2021
Review of When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash
I loved Cash's Eastern North Carolina setting, the character of Sherriff Winston Barnes, and the pulsing racial, class-based, and family...
- Sep 13, 2021
Review of Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
Haig is vulnerable and specific in his short memoir about his own experiences with mental illness and depression--and he shares the small...
- Sep 8, 2021
Review of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
ICYMI: In Matt Haig's How to Stop Time, main protagonist Tom Hazard lives for centuries but is not allowed to fall in love. When he...
- Sep 6, 2021
Review of What Doesn't Kill You by Tessa Miller
Miller outlines many of the frightening, difficult, relentless aspects of coping with a chronic illness. She lays a journalistic view...
- Sep 2, 2021
Review of Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
I was intrigued by the wolves, and I was interested in McConaghy's exploration of the tensions between wilderness and civilization, but I...