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A llow me to whine. I'll do it poetically.  I'm not a full time writer. It's a hobby I've been doing since I was in middle s...

This book came highly recommended by a close friend of mine, and with the 2020 election over, I was more willing to lean into the dystopian ...

There's a lot to fear in a pandemic. Some days the anticipatory grief is so overwhelming, to keep from crying I resort to naming off fiv...

Have you ever picked up a book that seems like you were meant to read it at that particular time in your life? Like, the book finds you a...

I knew what I was walking into when my book club chose "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers for this month's d...

I'd like to start out by saying that I am a fan of Barbara Kingsolver. I have now read all of her novels, sans her nonfiction work and...

You know those books that keep you up reading late into the night? For me, Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies  was one of those books. I...

Have you ever started reading a book that doesn't initially grab you, but somewhere in the rising action you find yourself surprisin...

pandoras-encore.deviantart.com If you are anything like me, a fan of A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF)   books as well as HBO's phenom...

If you liked Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, then odds are you will also enjoy Dark Places. The story follows the mystery of the Day Family...

Book Two in the MaddAddam Trilogy Oryx and Crake ( read my review here ) ended with Jimmy, aka Snowman, encountering the only humans h...

I read Andy Weir's The Martian  a few months ago ( read my review here ). The most compelling part of that story was the character o...

In her companion novel to Life After Life ( read my review here ) , Kate Atkinson revisits the Todd family with a particular focus on th...

After reading John Green's Looking for Alaska , I now understand a commonly cited criticism of his writing: the use of the "manic...

It's not often a book comes along with a character like Mark Watney. The main protagonist of Andy Weir's The Martian  is an astron...

Blake Crouch's Pines  is the first installment of the Wayward Pines Trilogy. I only heard of this book after an intriguing preview for...

I've been blogging for a couple of years now, and I've only just recently put in the effort to connect to the wider book blo...

I was in a dark place. All I was reading was Soviet Union historical fiction and crime novels for an external website I'm writing re...

In this sequel to Child 44 , British author Tom Rob Smith picks up with Leo Demidov three years after he's established the Homicide Di...

I recently reviewed the book Child 44 written by Tom Rob Smith, which you can read here . I didn't have much in the way of critici...

As the first installment in a trilogy, Tom Rob Smith's Child 44  was an intriguing historical thriller that I couldn't stop readin...

I'm going to start this off by saying that I was pretty sure this movie would have significant voice over. I expected passages from th...

In times of national economic upheaval the public seeks escapism. Some have credited Shirley Temple films with helping pull the nation...

It's 1899, and May Rose Long has just been abandoned by her husband in the mountains of West Virginia. Isolated from the logging town ...

"If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we a...