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Review of Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
Lula Dean focuses on the incredible power of books and truth-telling as characters discover their bravest selves and confront difficult...
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Review of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie #6) by Kate Atkinson
Atkinson's cozy, Agatha Christie-style novel features former lawman Jackson Brodie, a mystery within a mystery, a real-life killer who...
Jan 8
Review of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
I loved the premise of Creation Lake , and I was captivated by the mocking, ruthless, fickle freelance spy "Sadie." But the story and...
Jan 7
Review of Hum by Helen Phillips
The dystopian future of Hum is haunting in its familiar elements, its plausible, terrible climate-change effects, the extreme reliance on...
Dec 10, 2024
Review of Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst
Our Evenings explores a young, often cruel, existence at a British boys' boarding school; later fits and starts of exploring sexuality...
Dec 4, 2024
Review of We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida
Ishida's offbeat, heartwarming story of unconventional "medicine" in the form of cats explores interconnectedness and new perspectives,...
Nov 26, 2024
Review of Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
Blue Sisters explores three surviving sisters' messy paths into and out of grief after the loss of their fourth sister Nicky. They make...
Nov 21, 2024
Review of Pines (Wayward Pines #1) by Blake Crouch
In the first book of Blake Crouch's haunting mystery trilogy, secret agent Ethan Burke tries to grasp the shifts in time, widespread...
Nov 14, 2024
Review of Bull Moon Rising (Royal Artifactual Guild #1) by Ruby Dixon
I was hooked on the story of a team of young women fighting for admittance to a guild, their bonds, and their adventures. But the...
Nov 13, 2024
Review of Light to the Hills by Bonnie Blaylock
Blaylock's story centers around a packhorse librarian in 1930s Appalachian Kentucky and adds layers like a complicated past, second...
Oct 29, 2024
Review of Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth
Booth cushions the blow of the main protagonist's early-onset Alzheimer's with a zany romp, lots of love for books, and heartwarming,...
Oct 23, 2024
Review of The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
The reality-show setting and LGBTQIA+ representation in Ever After flips the traditional fairy tale in satisfying, heartwarming ways in...
Oct 22, 2024
Review of What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts) by Stanley Tucci
The gems of What I Ate in One Year are, as promised in the title, the food-related moments Stanley Tucci delves into over the course of...
Oct 17, 2024
Review of Hell for Hire (Tear Down Heaven #1) by Rachel Aaron
I felt like the story started off slowly, but once the world was built and the background established, I was hooked on the interpersonal...
Oct 8, 2024
Review of The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
The Paris Novel is the first novel by food writer, memoir author, food critic, and James Beard award-winner Ruth Reichl. It's a...
Sep 19, 2024
Review of The Trap (Alias Emma #3) by Ava Glass
In the third Emma Makepeace novel, British spy Emma goes rogue in order to save world leaders and prevent an assassination at the hands...
Sep 18, 2024
Review of Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story by Max Marshall
Among the Bros is a disturbing true story of increasing greed, shocking carelessness with human life, drug addiction, tragic turns and...
Sep 12, 2024
Review of Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Annis is a young Southern woman enslaved, sold, and abused in the years before the Civil War. In Let Us Descend , she leans on the...
Sep 10, 2024
Review of Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles
This historical fiction story in two timelines introduces the little-known real-life figure of librarian Jessie Carson, who traveled from...
Sep 5, 2024
Review of Burn by Peter Heller
I love Peter Heller's books, and Burn offers a wonderfully complicated friendship, meaningful connections to nature, momentous secrets,...