Sep 14, 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 12, 2020
Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/12/20 Edition
01 Surrender Your Sons This summer stinks. Teenage Connor's elderly friend died, his boyfriend talked him into coming out, and now his...
Sep 2, 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.
Aug 30, 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 29, 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 27, 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 23, 2020
Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now
Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now 01 Dear Emmie Blue 02 Network Effect 03 The House in the Cerulean Sea
Jul 5, 2020
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.
Apr 20, 2020
Review of The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead
Bea and her friends-like-family NYC network of loved ones, including her therapist Miriam, are endearing and wonderful.
Jan 9, 2020
Review of Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
Nazemian takes the reader to a powerful time in NYC through the experiences of characters that I cared about. Abdi Nazemian's Like a Love...
Sep 20, 2019
Review of Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
I loved Alex and Henry and really all of the characters, the banter, and especially McQuiston's politics lite.
Jan 3, 2018
Review of Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
There were a million ways this story could have felt less real and messy and fascinating. But it was just wonderful.