Day by Michael Cunningham
A single day revisited for three years is the scaffolding that supports Michael Cunningham’s new novel, Day. The years are significant as they bracket the pandemic and lockdown, but this is not a COVID...
View ArticleThe Flatshare: A Novel
In the same way I’m always up for a well done rom-com movie I sometimes need the same thing in my reading. The end of this year has found me unable to commit to anything with too much darkness or...
View ArticleCheck & Mate
Mallory is only 18 but she already has an unwanted reputation. She’s the only person to have beaten Nolan Sawyer, the 20-year-old World Chess Champion who hasn’t lost in over three years. Some would be...
View ArticleHolly by Stephen King
I know many people have moved towards cozy holiday reading in the last month, but my reading has remained varied and a little bit dark. So, I have a compromise today: a book with a Christmas-y title,...
View ArticleAll My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Salahudin and Noor have been best friends since the first grade when Sal was the only person who could communicate with Noor, newly arrived from Pakistan. This friendship, set in a small California...
View ArticleA Quiet Life by Ethan Joella
We live so much of our lives without telling anyone. Apparently, this is going to be an emotion drenched week of reviews. When A Quiet Life opens, a Pennsylvania suburb is locked in the throes of...
View ArticleThe Book of Fire
A forest fire, set by a developer to clear land for a hotel, ends up decimating a small Greek village, leaving the remaining residents awash in the ashes of loss and grief in The Book of Fire. For...
View ArticleFebruary Reading Wrap-Up
February ended up being an interesting month for my reading. Interesting in that none of the usual rules applied and I became impatient, starting and stopping books with all the crankiness of a...
View ArticlePineapple Street
The Stocktons are a family of inherited wealth, the kind whose trust funds have trust funds. Cord works with their father at the family’s real estate investment firm, but beyond that jobs are not...
View ArticlePiglet: A Novel
When a young woman’s fiancé reveals a significant betrayal two weeks before their wedding she’s left reeling. How she deals with this news and its impact on her life in this compressed timeline are the...
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