I was pulled into In Every Mirror She’s Black by the premise of three Black women who end up living in Sweden. Kemi is a marketing executive who’s been recruited by a phenomenal compensation project and a leadership role to a Swedish agency. Brittany is a flight attendant who is swept away by the owner of the agency when he becomes obsessed with her. Muna is a Somali refugee ... Read More...
Fight Night: A Novel by Miriam Toews
Sometimes when we fight…sometimes we’re not fighting in quite the right way…we need to adjust our game. But still, the main thing is that we’re fighting…your mom’s a fighter. We’re all fighters. Swiv comes from a family of fighters. At nine she’s suspended from school because King of the Castle is not a recess game to her, it’s a battle. One that she will win at any cost, ... Read More...
Under the Whispering Door
I wasn’t planning on it, but this is going to be a week of reviewing fantastical fiction. On Monday I discussed Cloud Cuckoo Land and today I’m back with Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune. It’s the story of Wallace Price, an astute and successful lawyer, who also happens to be a fairly terrible person (insert lawyer joke here). He dies of a sudden heart attack and finds ... Read More...
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
At long last, author Anthony Doerr, whose last novel, All the Light We Cannot See is one of my all-time favorite books, has come out with a new novel. Massive in its scope, Cloud Cuckoo Land covers everything from the life of a young girl in 1450s Constantinople, that of young man conscripted into the sultan’s army as it marches on the city, the small town of Lakeport Idaho ... Read More...
The Five Wounds: A Novel
Embarrassing confession time. I read a book several weeks ago that I loved, but I read it for pleasure, not review, which is a different style of reading for me. I didn’t highlight passages or make notes on plot points I wanted to share, sentences I loved. Meaning, now that I’ve decided I do want to share it, it’s not so clear in my mind. Simply put, The Five Wounds is an ... Read More...
For Your Own Good: A Novel
The Teacher of the Year award hanging in Teddy Crutcher’s classroom is his prize possession. He teaches high school English at the exclusive Belmont Academy and while the majority of his students are problematic he still does his best to prepare them for the world ahead. Teddy is one of a varied cast of suspicious characters in Samantha Downing’s new novel, For Your Own ... Read More...
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