With The Elements, John Boyne delivers another masterfully crafted story, rich with complexity and nuance—just like life itself. Told in four separate yet interconnected narratives, […] Read More
Category: Book Reviews
I was just a few pages into Lee Martin’s The Evening Shades when I felt its similarities to Kent Haruf’s Our Souls at Night. And […] Read More
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix has spent weeks on the Publishers Weekly Hardcover Fiction Top Ten list, but like much of today’s contemporary […] Read More
I’ll Come to You by Rebecca Kauffman takes readers through a year in the life of one family —spanning from post Christmas 1994 to Christmas […] Read More
This month’s discussion of Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon stands out as one of the best we’ve had in a long time. However, a great […] Read More
I discovered How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher through a New York Times article titled “The 25 Most Influential Cookbooks From the Last […] Read More
In Susan Rieger’s recent novel, Like Mother, Like Mother, three generations of women grapple with what it means to be a woman: wife, mother, and […] Read More
I first read Wayward in 2023, drawn in by its stunning cover. Once I started Emilia Hart’s debut, I was captivated by its themes and […] Read More
I Will Never See the World Again: The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer by Ahmet Altan is by far the best memoir I’ve read in a long time – possibly ever. Altan is a Turkish journalist, novelist, and political prisoner. This memoir is a collection of brief essays he wrote after his 2016 arrest and imprisonment.
The quote at the beginning of The Warrior: What happens when what you don’t see is more significant than what you do see? by T. […] Read More