Posts from the ‘Best of the Year’ category

Review of Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

I was happily surprised to find this second book by Celeste Ng every bit as good as her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You. There…

Best of 2017: Debut Novels

2017 gave us a lot of great first novels, and as I’ve written before, first novels are often an author’s best work — maybe because it’s…

Books That Disappointed in 2017

Amidst all the end-of-year best lists, these are books that didn’t quite live up to the hype. I’m not saying these were the worst books I…

Favorite Books of 2017

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is Best Books of 2017. I know I’m a big geek, but I love making…

2016: My Year in Blogging and Reading

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah, readers! 2016 wasn’t great for a few reasons, and for me it wasn’t a particularly good year in blogging and reading. …

My Top Reads of 2015

Happy New Year, everyone! Today I’m posting my top reads in 2015. I narrowed it down to 12, in no specific order: Everything I Never Told…

2015 in Reading and Blogging: an End of Year Survey

Thanks to The Perpetual Page Turner for this end-of-2015 survey! It’s long, so I’ve cut out some of the questions (in case you’re confused by the…

Top Ten Books Published in 2015

This week’s Top Ten topic, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is the top ten books read in 2015. I decided to narrow down my…

Top Ten Tuesday: New To Me Authors

This week’s Top Ten topic, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is the top new-to-me authors I read in 2015. Chimamanda Ngozie Idichie: Americanah was…

Books of 2015: Which Ones were Worth the Read?

Happy Thanksgiving! It’s gift-giving season, so I’m thinking about the books I want to put on my wish list. In November I saw a number of…