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Sep 13, 2020

Review of A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir by Colin Jost

Colin Jost retraces his journey toward and through his fifteen seasons at Saturday Night Live and offers insights that I found absorbing.

Sep 2, 2020

Review of The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

This is charming, with quirky characters, but it felt like a middle-grade book to me.

Aug 29, 2020

Review of Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel by Martha Wells

This one was slow going in the middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this series is perfect science-fiction e

Aug 9, 2020

Review of The Beauty of Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper

Harper is appealingly centered despite upheaval in her life, but I didn't feel drawn into her admittedly interesting experiences.

Aug 3, 2020

Review of Shiner by Amy Jo Burns

The women's lifelong friendship felt like the heart of the story and was a fantastic element.

Aug 1, 2020

Review of My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

The title of the book feels like an important assertion from Lucy; she is finally owning who she is--her story, choices, and essence.

Jul 18, 2020

Review of The Two Lives of Lydia Hill

Lydia had planned to spend the rest of her life with her fiance; now she's coming to terms with his recent and tragic loss.

Jul 14, 2020

Review of What You Wish For by Katherine Center

There are not many surprises here, but Center offers great escapism into a close-knit Galveston, TX, community.

Jun 20, 2020

Review of The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu

Lu layers a fantastical alternate fairy world over a framework of the imagined point of view of Wolfgang Mozart’s real sister.

Jun 10, 2020

Review of The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell

A smart master thief who bends time and finds her loyalties dividded in turn-of-the-century New York.

May 15, 2020

Review of Hard Cash Valley by Brian Panowich

In “Hard Cash Valley,” we spend page time with small-time drug dealers, cockfighting masterminds, Filipino gangsters, and crooked police.

May 14, 2020

Review of Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell by Tom Clavin

Clavin's nonfiction book "Tombstone" traces the tensions and factors as they build to pivotal events that make Tombstone live on in infamy.

Apr 13, 2020

Review of The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

When old college friends are snowed in, truths begin to come out and uncomfortable confrontations erupt.

Mar 28, 2020

Review of Light Changes Everything by Nancy E. Turner

I loved the early twentieth century Arizona Territory setting and details, as well as Mary Pearl’s spirit, grit, and determination.

Mar 25, 2020

Review of A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler

Fowler touches on some big, intriguing issues about guilt and innocence and race.

Mar 5, 2020

Review of The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson

The final book in Maureen Johnson's young adult Truly Devious trilogy wraps up the story, but I missed the earlier books' banter.

Feb 24, 2020

Review of The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher #22) by Lee Child

Child's Jack Reacher eschews societal standards of beauty and the judgment that often surrounds addiction. Jack Reacher doesn’t follow the ruuuules! I liked seeing him thinking outside the box here—and especially eschewing societal standards of beauty and the judgment that often surrounds addiction. The story involved a satisfying set of Reacher-figured-out-a-plan moments, along with somewhat of a commentary on the opioid crisis—especially as related to veterans—and some crit

Feb 22, 2020

Review of 142 Ostriches by April Davila

Tallulah shifts from resenting her future and her obligations to taking charge of her life and how she intends to live it.

Feb 10, 2020

Review of The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

This was creepy and smart and kept me hooked, wondering if the characters were who they said they were. Libby Jones was adopted as an infant and she has long wondered at the true story of her parents. She's twenty-five and working in an art gallery when she is given an envelope she hopes will contain answers. Instead, she realizes she has inherited a giant, decrepit mansion. The letter inspires varied and complicated questions about the possibly disturbing events that transpi

Feb 5, 2020

Review of Highfire by Erin Colfer

I loved the grumpy, jaded dragon of a main protagonist but had trouble with the purely evil bad guy. Vern! What I love love loved about this book were the grumpy, jaded dragon, the unlikely and endearing friendships, the dragon-life details, and the vivid bayou setting. I had a really tough time with the purely evil bad guy who showed no possible redemption or depth of character but stooped to increasingly horrifying depths of depravity, torture, and intensely dark impulses.

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