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Review of Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful explores family bonds, broken connections, forging through pain, allowing for unconventional routes to...


- Feb 23
Review of All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham
I was hooked on Willingham's past and present storylines and by her unreliable narrator Isabelle, who is desperate to find her missing...


- Oct 4, 2022
Review of The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream by Jeannie Zusy
Zusy's Frederick sisters navigate a complicated, stressful situation and drastic changes with plenty of mistakes, forgiveness, and...


- Feb 8, 2022
Review of My Heart Went Walking by Sally Hanan
Hanan's 1980s Irish coming-of-age story is full of angst, secrets, life-and-death danger, youthful determination--and the feeling that...


- 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...


- Aug 23, 2021
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/23/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy's novel about a biologist fighting to reintroduce...


- Apr 12, 2021
Review of The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
The dark, seemingly bottomless water is the standout, creepy element here: a source of relentless, hungry power that straddles the worlds...


- 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...


- 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...