As you know, I tend to be pretty hard on thrillers. So what does it take for me to really love one, besides You? I guess it just has to be well written, have multiple…
Category: Hidden Gems
If we can’t get rid of guns, let’s at least do this five dollar thing.
"If guns were banned, then how would men kill their wives? How would men kill themselves? How would men exact revenge on the world for not giving them everything they'd ever wanted?" So, reading How…
Once Less, with feeling
Strange to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to be young. Yes! It's like the last day in a foreign country. You finally figure out where to get coffee, and…
May this be the last Best of 2017 list you read this year
Took me a while to get to this, but here are my favorites that I read last year. Super top favorites: All Grown Up. My absolute favorite of the year. The only book I actually…
Don’t say I didn’t warn you
I realized recently that putting the 'not for everyone' tag on a book review is essentially a guarantee that I will read it. (On the flip side, putting the 'written by Jonathan Franzen' tag guarantees…
The book of today
This summer, one of my most trusted reader friends read an ARC of The World of Tomorrow, and said it was one of the best books she'd read in years. I'm so glad she did,…
One thing leads to another…
I had a few reasons for reading Last Things this weekend. For one, I love graphic memoirs, in fact, they're typically the only memoirs I can stand. I also tend to be in pressing-on-a-bruise mode…
You shred it, wheat!
2 question pop quiz: 1. What are my two favorite things? 2. What comes out today? Answers: 1. Books and summer. 2. The Book of Summer! I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy…
There’s no book like Was
"Dorothy," said Aunty Em. "Please come back. You were the light of my life. You were what kept me going all those years." These lines, said by the "real" Aunty Em to depressed adolescent Dorothy…
When it’s time to change, you’ve got to rearrange…
"Marriage doesn't hurt the cuddling or even change the sex all that much, but it does do something very bad to kissing." I could pick about 52 million relevant quotes from Sarah Dunn's amazing novel,…