Sorry for the lack of reviews this week, but as a reward for your patience I’m back with the perfect Halloween weekend reading from the master of creepy, Stephen King! Bill Hodges is a highly decorated, newly retired police detective struggling with the depression of living alone without the motivation of his job. There were a handful of cases he and his partner were never ... Read More...
Shark Heart: A Novel
Today’s review needs a bit of a preface: My husband doesn’t read (I know, I know, I love him anyway). He teases me about my obsession with books by noting there are only so many stories and I’ve read them all so how can I keep reading? Theoretically, this is true. Most novels revolve around the same basic themes: love, family, secrets, experiences. But within those parameters, ... Read More...
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
The writer’s imagination never ceases to amaze me. How even the smallest bit of news can catch their eye and be alchemized into stories far beyond the wildest imaginings of the rest of us. For Daniel Kraus, it was a small newspaper article about a diver who’d been caught in the mouth of a whale for mere moments before being pushed back out. This tidbit led him to wonder what ... Read More...
The Many Lives of Mama Love
It's a picture-perfect Saturday in Northern California with soccer parents lining the field and watching their kids play. As the game winds down most mothers go to retrieve their young, but Lara Love hangs back. And surreptitiously lifts cash out of a wallet in one of the handbags left behind in the stands. She moves onto the next before joining her friends and her children. ... Read More...
June Reading Recap
This June recap is a little special. Monday, July 3rd, is my mother’s 85th birthday and I want to give her the biggest shout-out I can because aside from being a wonderful mother, this blog, the podcast, my career as a librarian, none of it would have happened without her passion for books. She’s the lovely high schooler in the photo above and my love of reading is one of the ... Read More...
Happy at Any Cost by Kirsten Grind
As more entrepreneurs turn into billionaires and spend much of their fortunes on flying to space rather than on the problems of Earth, Tony Hsieh's story is both inspiring and tragic. A man whose mission was to make people happy, but couldn't find happiness for himself. I reviewed this biography last year, but it recently came out in paperback. Definitely worth a ... Read More...
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