

Review of There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
There Are Rivers in the Sky weaves together three stories set in three timelines, featuring disparate characters, to explore...
Feb 4


Review of Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
I loved this dive into the repercussions of a seemingly psychic woman's predictions of demise for her fellow passengers on a flight....
Oct 15, 2024


Review of Baby X by Kira Peikoff
Baby X explores the complex issues around an imagined future with genetically chosen embryos; Peikoff also digs into origin stories and...
May 8, 2024


Review of North Woods by Daniel Mason
Mason's novel isn't simply a historical fiction story linked through timelines. The book builds to be an often-sinister, Gothic-feeling...
Nov 22, 2023


Review of A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella
Joella's lovely exploration of three characters' loss and grief allows for deep human connection, the forging of messy paths forward, and...
Aug 15, 2023


Review of The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
White's twisty mystery is set against the backdrop of an unforgiving winter on an Australian island, with two women attempting to piece...
May 10, 2023


Review of The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee
I love a novel set in India, and the details of the sparkling promise and darker underpinnings of the city of Hrishipur were a standout...
Mar 29, 2023


Review of Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall
Marshall's debut historical fiction centers around women's searches for body autonomy in three timelines of interconnected characters and...
Feb 15, 2023


Review of Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
Juhea Kim's looping story of Korea, courtesans, pickpockets, and the powerful figures complicating and shaping all of their lives...
May 31, 2022


Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
In this nested story that spans centuries, Mandel explores a pandemic, moon colonization, the universal connection of music, the...
May 4, 2022


Review of Half Wild: Stories by Robin MacArthur
ICYMI: MacArthur's stories, set in rural Vermont, are tragic, beautiful, heartwarming, and heartbreaking. MacArthur, who is from Vermont...
Jun 17, 2021


Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/18/21 Edition
01 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Evaristo won the Booker Prize in 2019 for this novel, which I'm listening to as an audiobook...
Jan 18, 2021