Another July is in the books (pun intended) and I have yet to manifest the serene reading set-up in this graphic. Wouldn't it be lovely? Thankfully, my July reading delivered more highs than lows. The Original is a take on Katherine Hepburn’s life, but Priya Parmar surrounds her with a cast who were all original in their own way, including actor Cary Grant, a ... Read More...
Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash
How wonderful to find a novel that had me laughing out loud by page 10. Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash drops you right into the deep end of a deeply dysfunctional family from the perspective of their parish priest as he meets with their youngest daughter. They no longer come to church, the parents are stuck in a rut of vitriolic mutual dislike, and their three teenage daughters ... Read More...
A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage
Last week was devoted to sad summer reading—challenging, rewarding books that left me emotionally wrung out. This week I'm swinging in the opposite direction with something much more fun, beginning with: A Sociopath's Guide to a Successful Marriage by M.K. Oliver. Really, who could resist that title? Sophie is supremely confident, intelligent, attractive, a devoted wife and ... Read More...
A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides by Gisèle Pelicot
Gisèle Pelicot is the French woman whose husband of 50 years spent the last decade drugging and raping her and inviting strangers to repeatedly do the same while he recorded it. All of which she recounts in her memoir A Hymn to Life because this woman, who survived years of degradation and brutality without any memory of it, had the strength to confront it in graphic detail via ... Read More...
Land by Maggie O’Farrell
One family and a country wiped out by famine are the heart and soul of Land, Maggie O’Farrell’s sweeping new novel. The lives of Tomás, Phina, and their children, Liam, Enda, Rose, and Eugene play out on the page with all the verdant vibrancy of the land they love. It's a decade after the Great Hunger in Ireland and Tomás has found much needed work as a cartographer for the ... Read More...
Whidbey by T Kira Madden
I’ve always been open to challenging reading, but admit that I may have found the book that pushed too far. Whidbey by T Kira Madden is told from the perspectives of three women, all of whom have had their lives irreversibly changed by a pedophile. Two are victims and one is the man’s mother. Although they’ve never met they’re all caught in the same insidious net caused by one ... Read More...
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