Happy summer, book lovers! I hope you're all getting to enjoy nice weather, sunshine, and, of course, some great reading. In an effort to help, I'm back with three books that left me thinking It's Not You, It's Me. If Whitney Terrell’s goal in his novel The Good Lieutenant is to mimic warfare, then he succeeds. The novel opens with the search for ... Read More...
The World Without Us
Tess Müller hasn’t spoken in six months. Her mother, Evangeline, pushes a pram around all the time. Her younger sister draws trees and more trees. In most places they would stand out, but in the Australian town of Bidgalong strange is a relative concept. For decades the hills near the town were home to a cultish commune known as The Hive with its alpha male leader ... Read More...
Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty
It seems like a fairly straightforward equation: a father plus a mother plus three children equals happiness, but when the pluses that bind their reality is removed these elements no longer add up and the results are wholly unexpected. In Ramona Ausubel’s new novel Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty the plus is money, lots and lots of it, enough that Fern and Edgar ... Read More...
Wealthy Women: Mini-Reviews
You might have thought this was a one-time post, but if so, you don't know me well. I love two things in the reading-for-pure-entertainment genre: wealth and dysfunction so I will always give novels that allude to either a chance. If they can also be about female friendship, even better! This month's choices mash things up in a way that makes for interesting ... Read More...
The Summer Guest
Zinaida, Katya, and Ana have nothing in common, especially given that Zinaida lived in the small town of Sumy in the Ukraine in the 1800s and Katya and Ana are modern women. But in Alison Anderson’s debut novel, The Summer Guest, their lives intersect as Katya discovers Zinaida’s diary and hires Ana to translate it into English. For all three women this is their chance ... Read More...
It’s Monday, June 13th: What are You Reading?
This picture is only mildly appropriate as Seattle is flipping on an almost daily basis between summer heat and rainy chills (wear shorts? or a sweater?). It might also be a good metaphor for my reading. Somehow, I got a little crazy with the number of books I have to read in June and now I’m blowing hot and cold on almost every one. So, today this is not only ‘Monday ... Read More...
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