Oct 14, 2021
Review of So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
So Long, See You Tomorrow is gorgeous, heartbreaking, and feels timeless. I loved it. My friend James mentioned this book as a favorite...
Oct 12, 2021
Review of The Project by Courtney Summers
Summers's young adult fiction begins with a fascinating premise--sisters are torn apart by tragedy and then further separated by a...
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...
Oct 8, 2021
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/8/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney's book about a young poet hyper-focused on her...
Sep 28, 2021
Review of Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
In this memoir, Ford shares how she navigated an unforgiving childhood and complicated relationships with her volatile mother and her...
Sep 24, 2021
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/24/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Anthony Doerr's upcoming literary fiction tale of interconnected characters that spans centuries,...
Sep 21, 2021
Review of The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Johnson offers a wonderfully imperfect heroine and her fascinating journeys through the multiverse, her various lives, and her alternate...
Sep 10, 2021
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/10/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Guncle, Steven Rowley's sassy, heartwarming fiction about an uncle caring for his young niece...
Aug 31, 2021
August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite books from August! These are the books I most loved reading during the past month. The list skews toward light fiction,...
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...
Aug 13, 2021
Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In
More Memoirs I've Loved I love a good memoir, one that offers a glimpse or a deep dive into the life and pivotal experiences of another...
Aug 9, 2021
Review of Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens
Stevens offers a bad guy who's easy to despise in this mystery with great passages about surviving in the wild. Characters' careless...
Aug 5, 2021
Review of Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker
Walker offers a terrifying, disturbing premise--but I was fascinated with the character depth, explorations of grief, and the twist I...
Aug 2, 2021
Review of The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
Teenaged April has been dealt a difficult hand in life, and watching her struggle to make her way and connect with others in Allison...
Jul 28, 2021
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The People We Keep, Allison Larkin's upcoming novel about a young protagonist shaping her life...
Jul 6, 2021
Review of Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
This is a brutally violent story shadowed with heartbreaking regret. It's a fast read, and after my love of Blacktop Wasteland last year,...
Jun 28, 2021
Review of Girl One by Sara Flannery Murphy
Young adult Josie's origins--specifically her immaculate conception--have overshadowed everything else in her life. Now she must delve...
Jun 25, 2021
Review of The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
Lee shapes a lovely, tragic, wonderfully detailed story around the forgotten, real-life figure of Andrew Green and his essential...
Jun 23, 2021
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/23/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a romantic book about aspiring musicians with intertwined pasts; the rich fictional history of an...
Jun 17, 2021
Review of Half Wild: Stories by Robin MacArthur
ICYMI: MacArthur's stories, set in rural Vermont, are tragic, beautiful, heartwarming, and heartbreaking. MacArthur, who is from Vermont...