Beatriz Williams is always my go-to author for historical fiction, particularly about areas of history with which I am less familiar.  Our Woman In Moscow has the elements of a Williams’ story that I love most: family, loyalty, internal conflict, and historical details that make the story feel authentic and raw. ⁣⁣

This new Sally Rooney novel might be my most anticipated release of 2021. I enjoyed Rooney’s first two novels, Conversations With Friends and Normal People, and I was so excited to get an ALC from @librofm .  Rooney is a polarizing writer, but I think people who didn’t love her first two books will enjoy this one. ⁣⁣

“Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.”⁣

“In the end, the courage of women can’t be stamped out. And stories – the big ones, the true ones – can be caught but never killed.”⁣⁣Synopsis: “In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood’s most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, […]

I picked this up at the recommendation of @theliteraryheroine who is a disability advocate raising awareness, starting important conversations, and explaining her own experiences with being ignored by health care professionals, universities, and other large-scale institutions.

Page Count: 465 pages Year Published: 2015 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company I’m not a big fantasy reader, but I enjoyed this book and am now curious about Ninth House, which I started when it first came out and then put down a few chapters in.⁣⁣Synopsis: “Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything […]

Synopsis: “Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia, takes her job as a representative of her country seriously and comes up with an intricate set of rules to survive a range of problems: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to […]

A Separate Peace is on nearly every high school reading list. I say nearly because it wasn’t on mine. When I was in high school, we learned classic books through a process called “extended readings,” which meant each student chose a book and presented on it. I think it would’ve been more efficient to assign […]

Synopsis: “Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada as Renée Rosen draws readers into the glamour of 1965 New York City and Cosmopolitan Magazine, where a brazen new Editor-in-Chief–Helen Gurley Brown–shocks America by daring to talk to women about all things off limits…” ⁣When I left NYC in June, I didn’t want to go. I saw such a […]

“She figured that any day now she was going to start feeling the simple composure of normalcy that Jane Austen’s heroines always sought to maintain, the state described in those days as “countenance,” and later as “being cool.”⁣⁣Originally published in 1979 and reissued in 2017, Sex and Rage is an autobiographical novel about Jacaranda Leven, […]