Review of The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
There's brutality and bravery in this spooky tale--and the atmospheric descriptions of the remote, tiny town setting created an eerie,...
Dec 16, 2020
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/20 Edition
01 Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford Crawford thought the trauma of her assault at St. Paul's boarding school decades...
Dec 14, 2020
Review of The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens by Chris DeRose
Nothing happened in McMinn County unless the corrupt Machine profited by it...until the local GIs returned home from World War II and...
Dec 9, 2020
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/2/20 Edition
01 The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens by Chris DeRose The young men of McMinn County, Tennessee, are coming home after fighting in...
Dec 2, 2020
Review of Fable by Adrienne Young
I loved this first installment of Young's two-book series, which features pirates, a brave young heroine, a little romance, and lots of...
Nov 18, 2020
Six More Great Fiction Titles I Loved This Year
01 Where the Forest Meets the Stars Joanna is feeling adrift after her mother's death, and she disappears into the constant attention her...
Nov 6, 2020
Review of How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
Zhang's detail was wonderful, and her characters make noble sacrifices and face impossible choices. The book's frequent heartbreak was a...
Nov 4, 2020
Review of Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes by Jessica Pan
Pan is wonderfully honest, appealingly thoughtful, and often so so funny. I was so happy spending time in her point of view throughout...
Nov 2, 2020
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 The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
Hoffman made me feel anchored to the characters and the emotions, concerns, and life-and-death decisions the three women grappled with....
Jan 4, 2020
Review of The Huntress by Kate Quinn
The character-driven post-WWII story was wonderful, with compelling and lush detail and a gutsy female pilot determined to help take down...
Jun 30, 2019
Review of Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Strout is truly a marvel in the way she crafts full, complicated lives through sharing small moments. I loved every bit of this. Oh,...
Jun 26, 2019
Review of The Ragged Edge of Night by Olivia Hawker
Hawker brings to life a quiet existence in the German countryside set against a background of the unpredictable violence and destruction...
Feb 4, 2019
Review of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird
Bird does an excellent job of keeping up the tension and making clear the high stakes of Williams’s enormous secret in this story, which...
Jan 4, 2019