Jan 11, 2023
Review of Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
This fun, darkly funny, feminist story about a retiring female team of elite assassins was the right book at the right time for me:...
Jan 10, 2023
Review of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Keegan's slim book may seem cozy and quiet at first, but she beautifully illuminates tiny moments alongside momentous decisions and...
Jan 6, 2023
Review of Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Kingsolver offers an epic story of a faulted, unlikely hero in danger of being crushed by exceptionally difficult circumstances. His...
Jan 4, 2023
Review of Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
In Signal Fires, Dani Shapiro offers characters and consequences that connect through time and in unexpected ways. The loss and...
Jan 2, 2023
My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads
My very favorite reads this year! I post my favorite reads each month, and I was having such a great reading year, in late spring I...
Dec 28, 2022
Review of Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono
Thoughtful, self-deprecating, earnest, and honest, Surrender is a captivating peek into the four decades (and counting) of U2. Bono...
Dec 20, 2022
Review of Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin
Harkin's fascinating debut speculative fiction considers a memory clinic that erases and reinstates memories at clients' requests, the...
Dec 14, 2022
Review of The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2) by Maureen Johnson
ICYMI: The second in Johnson's young adult mystery series offers growing friendships, determined sleuthing, and young detectives'...
Dec 8, 2022
Review of The Box in the Woods (Truly Devious #4) by Maureen Johnson
The fourth mystery in Johnson's Truly Devious series delivers more smart, creative sleuthing from Stevie Bell and the gang, great...
Dec 7, 2022
Review of Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
Atkinson's newest mystery is set in vivid Roaring Twenties London as Nellie Coker struggles to hold on to her empire of clubs while...
Dec 2, 2022
November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite November reads! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: Renaissance-set historical fiction, two historical...
Dec 1, 2022
Review of Truly Devious (Truly Devious #1) by Maureen Johnson
ICYMI: This is the first in Johnson's young adult series, set in a boarding school in rural Vermont, with compelling past and 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 23, 2022
Review of True Biz by Sara Nović
True Biz is a coming-of-age story, a beginner's primer on Deaf culture, and a captivating novel about romance, disappointment, fury, and...
Nov 22, 2022
Review of Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
Kevin Wilson's wonderfully odd 1990s coming-of-age novel centers around teens Frankie and Zeke, their mysterious artistic creation, and...
Nov 18, 2022
My Six Favorite Book Club Books of 2022
Book club love! These are my favorite book club reads from the past year. We also read Betty, We Are Not Like Them, All Her Little...
Nov 17, 2022
Review of The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
ICYMI: Graham Moore tells a historical fiction tale based on real events surrounding the rise of the light bulb--with compelling...
Nov 16, 2022
Review of A Restless Truth (Last Binding #2) by Freya Marske
The second book in Marske's series is an irresistible queer magical mystery thriller with Edwardian England details, racy encounters,...
Nov 15, 2022
Review of Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
ICYMI: Geraldine Brooks crafts a historical fiction story of 1666, a year in which disease, fear, and loss make way for redemption,...
Nov 10, 2022
Review of The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
I was hooked on the captivating details of Renaissance life, masterfully paced swirling danger and paranoia, and richly developed major...