Book Review: Sweetness #9
I don’t know what I was expecting when I started Sweetness #9. I had been hearing nothing but praise, I was vaguely aware of the Colbert connection, but hadn’t read so much as a plot summary before I...
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Beautiful. Honest. Heartbreaking. These are just a few of the descriptors that can be applied to Terry Mutchler’s brave new memoir, Under this Beautiful Dome. It was the ’90s, the era of Don’t Ask,...
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As the first book I’ve managed to finish in 2015, The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber is holding a special place in my reader’s heart. Peter Leigh is an English minister who has been chosen...
View ArticleBook Review: The Girl Who Slept With God
You know those books that pop up randomly and suddenly they’re everywhere? That’s the experience I had with Val Brelinski’s debut novel The Girl Who Slept With God. I had been hearing murmurs around...
View ArticleBook Review: The Book of Speculation
Author: Erika Swyler Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Publisher Description: Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are...
View ArticleBook Review: Big Magic
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Publisher: Riverhead Books Publisher Description: Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Now...
View ArticleBook Review: Better Than Perfect
I’ve dealt with perfectionism for the majority of my life, in all aspects of it. In school, anything less than an A was unacceptable. I would never get into a good college, which meant I wouldn’t get...
View ArticleBook Review: Fates and Furies
Author: Lauren Groff Publisher: Riverhead Books Publisher’s Description: Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait...
View ArticleBook Review: Wildflower
Author: Drew Barrymore Publisher: Dutton Publisher’s Description: Wildflower is a portrait of Drew’s life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her...
View ArticleBetween You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (Book Review)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Author: Mary Norris Publisher’s Description: The most irreverent and helpful book on language since the #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves....
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