Two weeks ago I wrote about The Heirs, a novel that surprised me by going well beyond its blurb to become a 5-star read. I had a similar surprise with White Fur by Jardine Libaire except it’s not the blurb that is surpassed, it’s the beginning of the novel itself—which is a much greater feat. Elise is twenty-years-old and has seen way more of the worst of the world than ... Read More...
Everybody’s Son: A Novel
When a novel opens during a heat wave with a ten-year-old boy breaking a window to get out of an apartment with no electricity after being left alone for a week while his mother goes out to buy drugs it doesn’t seem as if much nuance to the story can follow. Unless the author is Thrity Umrigar, one of my favorite writers for presenting human emotion at its messy, inconvenient, ... Read More...
It’s Monday, June 12th: What Are You Reading?
Monday again? There is nothing like a vacation filled with family, momentous occasions (high school graduation, reunion with college friends) to dynamite even the best of reading intentions. What I mean is: I didn't finish Everybody’s Son until last night. Yes, I only read one book last week, which is…bizarre. OK, I binge watched the new season of Orange is the New Black, but ... Read More...
Touch: A Novel by Courtney Maum
The almost biological certainty that the more often you checked your cell phone, the more likely you were to find that one wondrous message or notification that would improve your entire life. In Touch Sloane Jacobson is a well-regarded trends forecaster (which is a real thing) best known for forecasting what is the now ubiquitous swipe used with all touch screen ... Read More...
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
Just in time for vacation reading! Noah Hawley's suspenseful mystery is being released in paperback- which is even better because it makes for easier transport to the beach/pool/porch/hammock/wherever you get to hang out and read in the summer. True horror, you see, comes not from the savagery of the unexpected, but from ... Read More...
It’s Monday, June 5th: What Are You Reading?
In case you didn't know, I’m a big fan of synchronicity. Coincidence is so boring when you can choose to believe that the most random things are part of a greater pattern! So…how awesome is it that my Monday reading is A) one of my favorite authors B) she lives in Cleveland and C) I’M IN CLEVELAND! I know, I’m giddy, too. And in my little rainbow unicorn mind ... Read More...
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