- Aug 3
Review of The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren
The True Love Experiment is a wonderful, romantic read about forbidden attraction and heartwarming vulnerability, with steamy scenes,...
- May 31
Review of This Time It's Real by Ann Liang
I was hooked by Liang's fake-dating, famous-everyday relationship duo setup, fantastically funny dialogue, and wonderfully imperfect...
- May 24
Review of Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith
ICYMI: Smith evokes a vivid sense of the regional South in her fiction, and in this memoir she traces her Appalachian youth, offering...
- Apr 11
Review of Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
Sittenfeld's funny and sweet take on an unlikely romance sparked by a longtime SNL-type weekly skit show immediately had me hooked, never...
- Jan 12
Review of Less Is Lost (Arthur Less #2) by Andrew Sean Greer
As with book one in the Arthur Less series, I was pleasantly surprised by the heart and vulnerability beneath the absurdities and funny...
- Jan 5
Review of The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
The past timeline explores creativity, love, betrayal, and unexpected loops of consequence--which are echoed hauntingly in the present...
- Nov 29, 2022
Review of The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken
McCracken straddles the line between novel and memoir in a work whose heart is a love letter to her extraordinary mother. The author...
- Nov 1, 2022
Review of Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan
Sink into this light-fiction escapism; Nora Goes Off Script is romantic and satisfying in its outlandishly satisfying resolutions,...
- Sep 8, 2022
Review of Less (Arthur Less #1) by Andrew Sean Greer
ICYMI: This funny, wry, silly, sweet, heartbreaking story feels light on the surface but has deep meaning churning underneath. “I look at...