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...
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...
City of Widows
Nadia Hashimi’s novel, City of Widows is set in Kabul in 2021 as America is in the final stages of withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. Despite all the promises made by the Taliban to honor the changes made in the country they are already targeting women for harassment and are arresting and/or killing anyone who aided the Afghan government against them. For two strangers, ... Read More...
This Book Made Me Think of You
Sometimes I have to stop being a critic and simply lean into what I’m reading. Such was the case with This Book Made Me Think of You. A trusted friend recommended it so I decided to give it a try, despite knowing it was a full-on romance. Period. If you don’t know what means: a book classified as true romance must have a happily ever after ending. I often like a bit more ... Read More...
A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides by Gisèle Pelicot
Gisèle Pelicot is the French woman whose husband of 50 years spent the last decade drugging and raping her and inviting strangers to repeatedly do the same while he recorded it. All of which she recounts in her memoir A Hymn to Life because this woman, who survived years of degradation and brutality without any memory of it, had the strength to confront it in graphic detail via ... Read More...
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