Aug 15
Review of Bear by Julia Phillips
The author of Disappearing Earth offers a story of bleak prospects, poverty and illness, a sister bond with fault lines ready to crack...
May 9, 2023
Review of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
The premise and setting of The Secret Book of Flora Lea are captivating. I was distracted by what felt like overly dramatic dialogue and...
Mar 22, 2023
Review of Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful explores family bonds, broken connections, forging through pain, allowing for unconventional routes to...
Feb 23, 2023
Review of All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham
I was hooked on Willingham's past and present storylines and by her unreliable narrator Isabelle, who is desperate to find her missing...
Oct 4, 2022
Review of The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream by Jeannie Zusy
Zusy's Frederick sisters navigate a complicated, stressful situation and drastic changes with plenty of mistakes, forgiveness, and...
Feb 8, 2022
Review of My Heart Went Walking by Sally Hanan
Hanan's 1980s Irish coming-of-age story is full of angst, secrets, life-and-death danger, youthful determination--and the feeling that...
Sep 2, 2021
Review of Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
I was intrigued by the wolves, and I was interested in McConaghy's exploration of the tensions between wilderness and civilization, but I...
Aug 23, 2021
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/23/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy's novel about a biologist fighting to reintroduce...
Apr 12, 2021
Review of The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
The dark, seemingly bottomless water is the standout, creepy element here: a source of relentless, hungry power that straddles the worlds...
Feb 4, 2021
Review of The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
I was especially taken with the sisters' complicated relationships and with the link Harrow draws between witching and the women's...
Jan 22, 2021
Six Great Books about the Immigrant Experience
01 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee In the early 1900s, a teenager falls for a silver-tongued stranger on the coast of Korea. But when the...