Sometimes a book’s marketing can end up working against it. I found this to be the case with Caroline Leavitt’s Cruel Beautiful World. The synopsis and various blurbs referenced the Manson ... Read More...
Mudbound
In 1939, at age thirty-one Laura is considered almost unmarriageable. All of her siblings have married and left the family home in Memphis. She has resigned herself to the fate of ... Read More...
Orhan’s Inheritance
Orhan runs a successful rug making factory in Istanbul. The company was started by his grandfather, Kemal, long before he was born. When his grandfather dies and the will is read, the ... Read More...
Free Range Reading: Divergent and The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Earlier this month I mentioned an event that Tanya at 52 Books or Bust was hosting called Free Range Reading. Basically, it's an opportunity for book bloggers to take advantage of the lack of new ... Read More...
Is This Tomorrow
In 1956 there was plenty to worry about- the Communists and nuclear missiles, but missing children were an anomaly. In Waltham, Massachusetts, people didn’t even lock their doors and children moved ... Read More...