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Jan 19, 2023

Review of A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti

Chakrabarti offers characters with complex struggles, hopes, and haunting memories who work to form deep, heartwarming connections in...

Jan 18, 2023

Review of As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3) by Holly Jackson

Jackson doesn't skimp on heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult...

Jan 17, 2023

Review of The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama

I listened to this audiobook and highly recommend immersing yourself in Michelle Obama's voice as she shares calm, wise, funny, or...

Jan 13, 2023

Six Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year

Six Four-Star Bossy Mystery Reads Doesn't the cold winter feel like the perfect time to cozy up with a mystery that hooks you with its...

Jan 11, 2023

Review of Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

This fun, darkly funny, feminist story about a retiring female team of elite assassins was the right book at the right time for me:...

Jan 10, 2023

Review of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Keegan's slim book may seem cozy and quiet at first, but she beautifully illuminates tiny moments alongside momentous decisions and...

Jan 6, 2023

Review of Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Kingsolver offers an epic story of a faulted, unlikely hero in danger of being crushed by exceptionally difficult circumstances. His...

Jan 4, 2023

Review of Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

In Signal Fires, Dani Shapiro offers characters and consequences that connect through time and in unexpected ways. The loss and...

Jan 2, 2023

My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads

My very favorite reads this year! I post my favorite reads each month, and I was having such a great reading year, in late spring I...

Dec 28, 2022

Review of Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono

Thoughtful, self-deprecating, earnest, and honest, Surrender is a captivating peek into the four decades (and counting) of U2. Bono...

Dec 20, 2022

Review of Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin

Harkin's fascinating debut speculative fiction considers a memory clinic that erases and reinstates memories at clients' requests, the...

Dec 14, 2022

Review of The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2) by Maureen Johnson

ICYMI: The second in Johnson's young adult mystery series offers growing friendships, determined sleuthing, and young detectives'...

Dec 8, 2022

Review of The Box in the Woods (Truly Devious #4) by Maureen Johnson

The fourth mystery in Johnson's Truly Devious series delivers more smart, creative sleuthing from Stevie Bell and the gang, great...

Dec 7, 2022

Review of Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson

Atkinson's newest mystery is set in vivid Roaring Twenties London as Nellie Coker struggles to hold on to her empire of clubs while...

Dec 2, 2022

November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite November reads! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: Renaissance-set historical fiction, two historical...

Dec 1, 2022

Review of Truly Devious (Truly Devious #1) by Maureen Johnson

ICYMI: This is the first in Johnson's young adult series, set in a boarding school in rural Vermont, with compelling past and present...

Nov 29, 2022

Review of The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken

McCracken straddles the line between novel and memoir in a work whose heart is a love letter to her extraordinary mother. The author...

Nov 22, 2022

Review of Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson

Kevin Wilson's wonderfully odd 1990s coming-of-age novel centers around teens Frankie and Zeke, their mysterious artistic creation, and...

Nov 18, 2022

My Six Favorite Book Club Books of 2022

Book club love! These are my favorite book club reads from the past year. We also read Betty, We Are Not Like Them, All Her Little...

Nov 17, 2022

Review of The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

ICYMI: Graham Moore tells a historical fiction tale based on real events surrounding the rise of the light bulb--with compelling...

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