

Review of The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
The Heiress is set on a North Carolina estate that's always felt claustrophobic to Cam. But his adoptive mother Ruby, an infamous...
Jan 23, 2024


Review of The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook
The Madstone begins as an against-the-odds attempt to evade evil and develops into a beautiful heartbreaker of a story about duty,...
Dec 12, 2023


Review of Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue
Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women in an early 1800s British boarding school who fall...
Sep 14, 2023


Review of A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird
Isabella Bird's nonfiction account of her 1873 travels through the rugged, wondrous American West is full of her irresistible...
Aug 31, 2023


Review of Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Rooney's characters engage in extensive self-reflection while struggling to open up emotionally to each other. Their vulnerabilities feel...
Nov 3, 2021


Review of The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
ICYMI: This young adult historical fiction story was a five-star read for me. I adored it. “My books promised me that life wasn’t just...
Oct 13, 2021


Review of Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey
I delighted in the way Teddy and Everett shared pieces of their true oddball, vulnerable, silly, thoughtful selves. This was a...
Oct 5, 2021


Review of City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Young Vivian's carousing in 1940s New York City is entertaining, sexy, and an interesting burst of feminism and freedom in the era. In...
Jan 13, 2021


Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/6/21 Edition
01 With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt In Leavitt's novel, published by Algonquin Books late last summer, Simon and Stella have been...
Jan 6, 2021


Review of This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Authors El-Mohtar and Gladstone present rival elite agents, Red and Blue, who exist on opposite sides of an immense futuristic war.
Jul 5, 2020