Queenie is a 25-year-old British Jamaican woman who’s got her dream job and a strong circle of friends. She’s also separated from her white boyfriend, living in a tiny dump of an apartment with roommates she avoids, and is on the verge of losing her job because she spends so much time at the office dealing with her personal life. She’s the eponymous star of Candice ... Read More...
Long Bright River
Mickey has been a Philadelphia police officer for 13 years. She’s got the brains and the experience to become a detective, but stays as a patrol cop in a neighborhood called Kensington. A high crime area where the yearly overdose deaths top 900. Why? Because it’s the only way she can keep track of her baby sister Kacey, an addict who sells sex to pay for her habit. Only now, as ... Read More...
10 Winter 2020 Books I’m Ready to Read
Welcome to the first full week of January and my winter 2020 reading picks! Not to mention the beginning of a new decade. I can’t even imagine what my life is going to be like in another ten years, although I’m virtually certain I’ll still be reading. Will artificial intelligence have advanced enough that I’ll have a bot that will make my reading picks for me and guarantee a ... Read More...
Creepy December: Part Two
Oh boy, my month of mood-reading thriller-mania continues! Earlier in the month I shared my creepy December reading. Today's version is going to be super specific: women who leave behind diaries. Somehow, two of the suspense novels I read this month have a main character who narrates through their writing. And yes, that does mean they’re no longer active in the plot except for ... Read More...
Recursion
Blake Crouch’s new novel, Recursion, has left me stumped. In order to review a book, I need to be able, to some degree, to understand it and in this case I’m not sure I do. It’s about time travel and its impact. Sort of. Maybe. I think… It’s 2007 and Helena Smith is a neuroscientist whose mother has Alzheimer’s. She has spent years trying to devise a way to capture and map ... Read More...
Creepy December
I realize December is supposed to be a month of comfort and joy, but for whatever reason, my reading has taken a seriously creepy turn. Maybe it’s because I’m reading mostly backlist books, meaning I go to the library and whatever catches my eye I borrow. So, thrillers have the best covers? Who knows. Here are two novels that left me wonderfully freaked out and buried in books ... Read More...
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