Nov 29, 2021
Review of These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
The wilderness and isolation of the story combined with the looming dangers posed by the outside world make These Silent Woods feel...
Nov 8, 2021
Review of Warcross (Warcross #1) by Marie Lu
You may see much of this young adult story coming, but Warcross is an action-packed quest to right wrongs in an immersive video game and...
Oct 26, 2021
Review of The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace is atmospheric and often disturbing. I didn't understand many of the characters' motivations or reasoning so didn't feel...
Oct 11, 2021
Review of Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Rooney plunges the reader into uncomfortably claustrophobic and microscopically examined moments in Conversations with Friends I listened...
Sep 13, 2021
Review of Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
Haig is vulnerable and specific in his short memoir about his own experiences with mental illness and depression--and he shares the small...
Sep 6, 2021
Review of What Doesn't Kill You by Tessa Miller
Miller outlines many of the frightening, difficult, relentless aspects of coping with a chronic illness. She lays a journalistic view...
Aug 26, 2021
Review of The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson
Wilson's bubbly personality comes through in these essays, and her show business experiences were interesting, but I often couldn't...
Aug 20, 2021
Review of Shoulder Season by Christina Clancy
The Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, atmosphere of Shoulder Season was a standout element, but the characters' interactions and some of the...
Aug 16, 2021
Review of Paper & Blood (Ink & Sigil #2) by Kevin Hearne
I enjoyed revisiting characters from Ink & Sigil, but I felt bogged down by recounted stories and detailed logistics, and I missed the...
Aug 13, 2021
Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In
More Memoirs I've Loved I love a good memoir, one that offers a glimpse or a deep dive into the life and pivotal experiences of another...
Aug 9, 2021
Review of Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens
Stevens offers a bad guy who's easy to despise in this mystery with great passages about surviving in the wild. Characters' careless...
Jul 29, 2021
Review of Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I had fun reading about the glamorous modeling-surfing-photography-music star family pedigree. But I felt as though the last hundred...
Jul 15, 2021
Review of Fallen: A Novel of Suspense by Linda Castillo
Castillo's Amish setting is intriguing, I didn't see the resolution of the mystery coming, and I was kept engaged while listening to...
Jun 29, 2021
Review of Sarahland: Stories by Sam Cohen
The various Sarahs of Cohen's stories take on frequently unorthodox searches for self and meaning--while coping with versions of the...
May 12, 2021
Review of The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
This is a fast, compelling read, and I tore through it at top speed to find out the Big Reveals. I predicted some of the story, but other...
Apr 23, 2021
Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music
Who likes a little rock with their reading? My friend Deyna recently mentioned revisiting Daisy Jones and the Six. I was thinking about...
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...
Mar 31, 2021
Review of One Day in December by Josie Silver
Silver offers a story with a missed-chances premise in which romance, drama, and an unwavering hope in fated love are the linchpins. One...
Mar 26, 2021
Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
Do you love witchy books like I do? I love a good witch-focused book, and I've been wanting to put together a Greedy Reading List on this...
Mar 18, 2021
Review of Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
The first book in Mahurin's young adult fantasy trilogy was unabashedly dramatic and angsty, and I was smiling at all of it in delight....