One of the best gifts of reading is not only discovering a new writer you love, but learning that they have written previous books, opening up the possibility of more wonderful reading. This was the case with Sarah Winman. I read her novel, Tin Man, ... Read More...
It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mini-Reviews
I'm back, with two spring releases that I didn't care for, but that I recognize could very well work for someone else. The family of women in What Should Be Wild are cursed. They are the Blakelys and they go back generations to 400 ... Read More...
Peach by Emma Glass
Peach is high intensity fiction, opening with an explosion of visceral, unremitting fear and pain as a young woman tries to pull herself together after being raped. Everything is relayed from a sensory level, from the odor of the man to the ... Read More...
August Reading Wrap-Up
Good bye August and goodbye summer! I complain a fair bit, but here is one thing that I absolutely loved about this summer in Seattle. We only had maybe three days all told when it got above 90°. The majority of the summer was in the mid-70s with ... Read More...
May Reading Recap
To call this month’s reading recap a mashup is an understatement. It could also be the library checkout recap or even the non-fiction recap—which is huge because I’m virtually certain I’ve never read more than one non-fiction book a month, ... Read More...
