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Sep 17, 2021

Review of Circe by Madeline Miller

ICYMI: My recent review of Natalie Haynes's entertaining A Thousand Ships brought to mind this wonderful title by Madeline Miller that I...

Jul 9, 2021

My Very Favorite 2021 Reads So Far

My very favorite reads so far this year! I post a monthly wrap-up of my favorite reads, but now that 2021 is halfway over, it feels like...

Jun 30, 2021

June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite books from June! Here's the gist of each of the books I most loved reading during the past month, in the order in which...

Jun 16, 2021

Review of The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati

ICYMI: This is excellent, layered historical fiction with memorable characters and a great big story to dive into on a hot summer's day....

May 14, 2021

Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War

The Civil War Books This painful, terrible time in our nation's history makes for some poignant, brutal, often beautiful storytelling....

May 7, 2021

Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite

It's time for the foooood books! The shout-out: this Greedy Reading List theme was suggested by my lovely longtime friend, fellow book...

Apr 9, 2021

Six Powerful Memoirs About Facing Mortality

Are you intrigued by reflections on life and death? This is a departure from many of my other Greedy Reading Lists: witchy books, young...

Mar 26, 2021

Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You

Do you love witchy books like I do? I love a good witch-focused book, and I've been wanting to put together a Greedy Reading List on this...

Mar 19, 2021

Six Fantastic Stand-Alone Young Adult Books

Aren't young adult books just the best? Young adult is one of my favorite genres to read for fun and to edit. The main protagonists are...

Mar 15, 2021

Review of I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell

A book I loved, in case you missed it! O’Farrell’s meditations on the precious nature of life felt new, honest, raw, and fascinating. We...

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 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...

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 16, 2021

Review of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

A book I loved, in case you missed it! Jesuits in space find extraterrestrial life--and explore the limits of their faith. This is unlike...

Jan 15, 2021

Six Book Club Books I Loved Last Year

01 Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout Oh, Olive! In Olive, Again, she ambles through town and reflects on aging, on her life, and...

Jan 7, 2021

Review of When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine by Monica Wood

A book I loved, in case you missed it: Wood's memoir is captivating and lovely, poignant, sweet without being overly sentimental, and...

Oct 2, 2020

Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year

01 Say Nothing 02 Just Mercy 03 The Spy and the Traitor 04 Catch and Kill 05 White Fragility 06 Hidden Valley Road

Sep 18, 2020

Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

01 Leaving the Witness In Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life, Amber Scorah takes the reader into her confidences...

Aug 20, 2020

Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

01 A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World And there may be no law left except what you make of it, but if you steal my dog, you can at...

Jun 27, 2020

Review of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

"A stirring call to conscience and consciousness in white brothers and sisters."

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