Review: Dopesick by Beth Macy
This was one of those books that’s a tough read, but an important subject we should know more about. And Macy does a nice job of…
Review: All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
I really appreciated this memoir by Nicole Chung about her adoption and the search for her birth family. It was particularly interesting to read about her…
Review: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
It’s hard to say this book was fun, since it involved more violently ill characters than any other book I can think of… but it’s a…
Reading the Hugo Nominees
This year my husband signed up to vote in the Hugo Awards, and together we’re reading as many of the nominees as possible. Voting runs from…
On The Come Up and The Poet X: a Double Review
These books share a lot of similarities and both were fantastic, so I’m reviewing them together. Both are about teenagers dealing with racial identity, religion, friendship,…
Review: The Farm by Joanne Ramos
I really liked this slow-burner of a novel about a program for the wealthy who want surrogate parents. Ramos creates what I found to be a…
Re-Reading Childhood Favorites: Heidi by Johanna Spyri
You might not expect Heidi to be one of my childhood favorites, but it is. I tended to love books that were grittier and darker. I…
Review: The Library Book by Susan Orlean
I can’t say this is a perfect book, but it’s one of my favorites of the year, and it’s a book I’ll recommend to a lot…
Review: Normal People by Sally Rooney
I loved the way this book begins, because I identified very much with Marianne, one of its two narrators. Marianne and Connell are two teens in…
Review: Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
I had to force myself to finish this book, and that’s never a good thing. At times this book was nicely written and I found myself…
Review: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
The Great Believers was heartbreaking, but so good and very worth reading. I realize that reading a book about the AIDS crisis in the 80s isn’t…
Review: We Fed an Island by Jose Andres and Richard Wolffe
The first half of this book was really interesting. Andres writes a lot about the history of Puerto Rico and what happened with Hurricane Maria. Also…
