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Mar 12, 2021

Six Books about Brave Female Spies

Tough women, secrets and smarts, and sneaky spying! I love a peek at a secret world, and each of these books offers that very thing. Only...

Mar 5, 2021

Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into

Do you love memoirs like I do? I love digging into the story of someone's life--notable because of chance, circumstance, or choice--and...

Mar 2, 2021

Review of We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

Whitaker's story builds into a tale of heartbreak and desperate hopes for redemption that folds back upon itself with unexpected turns...

Feb 22, 2021

Review of Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton

The emotions and drives of the story feel real, but the tone is darkly playful. I loved spending time with main protagonist Eli as he...

Feb 19, 2021

Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II

01 The Skylark's Secret by Fiona Valpy The Skylark's Secret has a dual timeline; the story is set in rural Scotland during World War II...

Feb 15, 2021

Review of The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James

I loved this. Romy's soaring hopes, her vulnerability and then her growing doubts, her self-reliance and quick thinking, and the shifts...

Feb 8, 2021

Review of The Unwilling by John Hart

Hart reliably offers character-driven mysteries with heartbreaking interpersonal complications. The twists and turns here are excellent,...

Feb 5, 2021

Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love

01 The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden This is an ancient-feeling, dark fairy tale of a story that takes place within a small...

Feb 4, 2021

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...

Feb 1, 2021

Review of Beneath the Keep by Erika Johansen

The kingdom's evils are intensely detailed and extensively explored; this motivates characters to seek change, but also made the book...

Jan 29, 2021

Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West

01 Inland by Téa Obreht Much of Téa Obreht's Inland is centered around Nora, an impulsive, hot-tempered, strong woman fighting for a...

Jan 26, 2021

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, 2021

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 21, 2021

Review of Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

A book I loved, in case you missed it! I loved this post-World War II book about bravery and rural life for middle-grade readers....

Jan 19, 2021

Review of Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner

Gardner's brand-new character-driven mystery offers an imperfect, unassuming heroine obsessed with solving the cold cases of missing...

Jan 18, 2021

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...

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 18, 2020

Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year

01 The Huntress by Kate Quinn I'm in for World War II-set books with tough, brave female protagonists, and I loved this book. Nina...

Dec 16, 2020

Review of The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

There's brutality and bravery in this spooky tale--and the atmospheric descriptions of the remote, tiny town setting created an eerie,...

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...

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