

My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads
01 The Vanishing Half 02 Florence Adler Swims Forever 03 Blacktop Wasteland 04 Utopia Avenue 05 When These Mountains Burn 06 This Is All He
Aug 20, 2020


Review of Shiner by Amy Jo Burns
The women's lifelong friendship felt like the heart of the story and was a fantastic element.
Aug 3, 2020


Review of When These Mountains Burn by David Joy
Joy offers an often dark work of Southern literary fiction in which bubbles of hope emerge.
Jul 24, 2020


Review of Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
Bug is forced to consider what loyalty means, and he must face a potentially dark path ahead.
Jul 19, 2020


Review of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Things don't all work out too easily in Hendrix's Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, but courage is satisfyingly rewarded.
Jul 17, 2020


Review of Hard Cash Valley by Brian Panowich
In “Hard Cash Valley,” we spend page time with small-time drug dealers, cockfighting masterminds, Filipino gangsters, and crooked police.
May 15, 2020


Review of News of the World by Paulette Jiles
This is character-driven historical fiction at its best.
Jan 26, 2018


Review of The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
This beautiful book broke my heart and I just adored it.
Jan 1, 2018