If anyone had told me I would fall in love with a tiny book about a robot and a monk I would have asked if this was the beginning of a bar joke. It’s not and I have my neighborhood book club to thank for leading me to A Psalm for the Wild-Built, a science fiction novel that took me by surprise in the best way possible. Hundreds of years ago Panga was an industrial society ... Read More...
The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon
Hello, fall! It may not be here officially, but in the book world this week is one of the busiest for new releases. And this year looks to be huge with fall novels coming from popular authors like Hernan Diaz, Barbara Kingsolver, Jodi Picoult, Elin Hilderbrand, Emily St. John-Mandel, Bonnie Garmus, and Kate Atkinson. I’m happy to add Ariel Lawhon to the list. I was late to the ... Read More...
August Reading Wrap-Up
It's time for another monthly reading wrap-up. And the impending end to summer. The good news is that there are SO MANY authors coming out with new books this fall that the reading should be stellar. Stay tuned! There needs to be a better word than messy to describe Sisters of a Halved Heart and I don’t mean that in a pejorative way, but almost as a ... Read More...
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
The sprawling Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil spans three centuries and in doing so introduces and follows three young women, each completely different, but ultimately bound to each other whether they want to be or not. Maria is a young woman in Spain in the 16th century about to be married off to a man she knows nothing about. She hopes marriage will bring her a life of ... Read More...
The Children by Melissa Albert
In her new novel, The Children author Melissa Albert goes with the familiar theme of life as the child of a celebrity and pushes it even harder. Edith is a writer who gained her fame and fortune by writing a series of children’s fantasy books, using her own children’s names and even their likenesses. Ennis and Guin had no escape from the adulation and curiosity she created ... Read More...
The Top of the World by Ethan Joella
When Maggie’s older brother, Chip disappears for the summer after the end of his senior year in high school it’s a big deal. Because it’s probably the last summer he’ll ever have and she and her parents are left alone and wondering if they’ll ever see him again. They do, but he never says anything about his time away. A year later Maggie seeks some kind of closure around his ... Read More...
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 297
- Next Page »
