As I started reviewing my reading year there was one stat that jumped off the chart at me. Of the 13 five-star books I read this year my favorite 9 were backlist (published before 2024). I’m sure publishing analysts could provide an easy explanation (fewer books published in an election year) or a psychologist something more detailed (possibly around escape and avoidance) but ... Read More...
Snake Oil: A Novel
Three women, one company. Set in the wellness industry Snake Oil is about the woman who starts the company and two of the women who work for her. At opposite ends of the spectrum, one is a fervent believer in the company’s mission while the other avidly opposes it, but needs the paycheck. When the novel opens a clinical trial for a new supplement is wrapping up. It’s release ... Read More...
The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz
More devious, delicious, escape reading! The Sequel is just that, the sequel to Jean Hanff Korelitz’s novel The Plot. Anna Williams-Bonner is the widow of critically acclaimed author Jacob Bonner. Only she’s not happy about her husband’s success as his novel cuts a bit too close to her own life. She’s aggrieved by this as she is by most things. Her most fervent wish is to be ... Read More...
The Best Lies by David Ellis
A crusading lawyer, a former cop, and an FBI agent looking to make his mark all come together like gasoline and a match in David Ellis’ new novel, The Best Lies. Leo is a lawyer working to bring a sex trafficker to justice, but his case falls apart when his client, who’d been enslaved as a prostitute and had a child sold off, is murdered. Days later the trafficker is found ... Read More...
The Puzzle Box
What do a traumatic brain injury, the imperial family of Japan, and a puzzle have in common? If you’re Mike Brink, a man whose football injury left him a savant in the world of patterns and mathematics, the answer is easy: the myth of the Puzzle Box of Japan. For Danielle Trussoni, this is the jumping off point for her new novel, The Puzzle Box, a fiendish thriller that made me ... Read More...
September Reading Wrap-Up
Having binged the final two seasons of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel this was the only possible graphic I could use for my September recap. Plus, it's been quite chilly and grey here. So many big book releases this month and I didn’t read most of them. I’m embracing the new normal of my reading—whatever keeps me turning the pages. In this case, it was lots of fantasy with a ... Read More...
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