

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/29/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading three books that are about to be published: Cory Anderson's debut, a dark young adult novel about...
Mar 29, 2021


Review of Outlawed by Anna North
North provides intrigue, an exploration of gender and power roles, tales of unconventional friendship, and enough shoot-outs and danger...
Mar 11, 2021


Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into
Do you love memoirs like I do? I love digging into the story of someone's life--notable because of chance, circumstance, or choice--and...
Mar 5, 2021


Review of A Burning by Megha Majumdar
There's enough injustice and crooked dealing in this captivating book to fully enrage a reader, yet the tone of Majumdar's debut title...
Feb 16, 2021


Review of The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
I was especially taken with the sisters' complicated relationships and with the link Harrow draws between witching and the women's...
Feb 4, 2021


Review of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Evaristo offers a set of twelve interconnected stories about Black women in contemporary Britain and their friendships, loves, struggles,...
Jan 26, 2021


Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/18/21 Edition
01 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Evaristo won the Booker Prize in 2019 for this novel, which I'm listening to as an audiobook...
Jan 18, 2021


Review of Untamed by Glennon Doyle
I love Glennon's heart and her honesty, but many of these essays ended too soon for me. Doyle, the bestselling author of Carry On,...
Jan 12, 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 Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas
Here For It is refreshing and playful yet thoughtful. I loved spending time with the uproariously funny Thomas. In Here for It: Or, How...
Jan 5, 2021


Review of The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly by Meredith Tate
The mystery moves along at a nice clip, with Ivy and her loyal friends making plucky efforts to uncover the truth to save Autumn.
Oct 27, 2020


Review of A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic #3) by V.E. Schwab
Schwab's stories take place within her detailed fantasy worlds, but her characters' conflicts, hopes, and fears feel real and true.
Oct 21, 2020


Review of A Star Is Bored by Byron Lane
Lane's story is zany and wonderful, with lots of glimpses into behind-the-scenes celebrity details--and a layer of heart and poignancy.
Oct 20, 2020


Review of The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
Wizenberg struggles to reconcile her identity, sexuality, love, and duty into an honest lifestyle.
Oct 12, 2020


Three Memoirs I'm Reading Now, 10/7/20 Edition
01 Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs, Roberts 02 Blood: A Memoir, Moorer 03 The Fixed Stars, Wizenberg
Oct 7, 2020


Review of Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
Some aspects of Surrender Your Sons felt deeply real and intimate, but I couldn't get past the details that didn't fit.
Sep 14, 2020


Review of The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
This is charming, with quirky characters, but it felt like a middle-grade book to me.
Sep 2, 2020


Review of Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne
The playful and absurd are presented as everyday occurrences, and supernatural events are regularly intermingled with sassy detective work.
Aug 30, 2020


Review of Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel by Martha Wells
This one was slow going in the middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this series is perfect science-fiction e
Aug 29, 2020


Review of Soulless by Gail Carriger
I loooved this witty, romantic, action-packed steampunk novel--the first in a series--from Gail Carriger.
Aug 27, 2020