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Mar 4, 2021

Review of The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Each life Nora tries on changes her in some way, whether by erasing her regrets about a path not taken, showing her that she's capable of...

Mar 1, 2021

Review of Machinehood by S.B. Divya

Space! Robots! Artificial intelligence! Divya has crafted strong female main protagonists who navigate the sometimes dark, always...

Feb 12, 2021

Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings to Read by the Fire

01 The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld This book is dark and beautiful, with such expansive descriptions of the mountains, the closed-in...

Feb 11, 2021

Review of Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy

Newlyweds Sam and Annie haven't known each other long. They realize their whole lives could be shattered as the lies they've been telling...

Feb 10, 2021

Review of The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy

In case you missed it: Aimee Molloy's page-turner is a quick read with a major--if manipulative-feeling--plot twist. The characters in...

Feb 1, 2021

Review of Beneath the Keep by Erika Johansen

The kingdom's evils are intensely detailed and extensively explored; this motivates characters to seek change, but also made the book...

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...

Jan 8, 2021

Six 2020 Mysteries for You to Check Out

01 The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi Alex Pavesi's The Eighth Detective is appealingly old-fashioned. The murder mystery stories were...

Dec 23, 2020

Review of In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren

In a Holidaze is a romantic holiday time twist with sexy interludes and a reliably happy ending. Twentysomething Mae is spending the...

Dec 7, 2020

Review of The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

The Unhoneymooners is fun escapism, even if it's not my very favorite Christina Lauren book. In The Unhoneymooners, unlucky Olive is...

Nov 30, 2020

Review of Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

I would have liked more introspection, but I loved spending time in Kendrick's funny, honest, often wonderfully wacky point of view. In...

Nov 4, 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...

Oct 14, 2020

Review of Trust No One (Devlin and Falco #1) by Debra Webb

The beautifully complementary, mismatched partnership between Devlin and Falco was my favorite aspect of the book.

Oct 12, 2020

Review of The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg

Wizenberg struggles to reconcile her identity, sexuality, love, and duty into an honest lifestyle.

Sep 23, 2020

Review of Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren

This is sexy, sweet, great escapism from Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings.

Sep 13, 2020

Review of A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir by Colin Jost

Colin Jost retraces his journey toward and through his fifteen seasons at Saturday Night Live and offers insights that I found absorbing.

Mar 2, 2019

Review of A Murder by Any Name by Suzanne M. Wolfe

Wolfe's book was a fun, quick read that kept me engaged the whole way through. The Elizabethan-era detail in A Murder by Any Name was...

May 13, 2018

Review of Force of Nature (Aaron Falk #2) by Jane Harper

I didn’t feel as attached to Aaron in this mystery set in the Australian bush, but I still love Harper's tone and pacing, and I'm in for her

Feb 4, 2015

Review of The Painter by Peter Heller

Long after finishing this book I thought back to Heller's protagonist and various vivid settings. I was hooked by The Painter's main...

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