Name a book that you bought and then let gather dust on your shelves for … seven years.  I’ll go first… ⁣⁣I think the contrarian in me prevented me from picking up WILD until now.  When I bought it, it was so hyped, and I would read the first few pages and put it back down. This […]

When headline after headline in 2017 included a story of sexual violence perpetrated by powerful people, the public had questions. How had so many powerful people implemented systems of abuse that lasted decades? How many people ignored allegation after allegation and were thus complicit? A question that arose several times over: if it happened, why […]

Beth O’Leary does it again. She’s cemented her place as an auto-buy author for me. Her romances are layered, well-executed, and dripping with chemistry among the characters (not just the love interests). ⁣⁣⁣⁣Going on a road trip with an ex sounds like a nightmare, but this tale offers an alternative — a time for healing, […]

This story meanders through Nazi-occupied Paris in 1941, and while it was a bit of a slow burn in terms of plot, it was an engaging story that I was invested in immediately. The narrative voice felt so unique and developed that, as a reader, I really felt in the middle of the story. I’ve […]

If you enjoy family dramas, twisty plots, and multiple POVs, this is the book for you! This book is told from the perspectives of many characters, and while this could easily lead to confusion, Lange expertly distinguishes the different narrators. There is more melodrama in this book than I expected and there is a complex plot. The […]

Thank you @netgalley and @flatironbooks for the e-galley! ⁣⁣Out Tuesday, August 3!⁣⁣Dynasty Ranch is an idyllic neighborhood, and Nora, a hard-working attorney who is trying to make partner at her law firm, is eager to buy a house there. Her professional life seems to be right on track and going well… but her domestic life? Well, she feels like […]

“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”⁣⁣“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”⁣⁣The mesmerizing mystique of Gatsby is pervasive, and in the years since its publication its extravagant, yearning tone still captivates readers. Many people […]

Kisses & Croissants is the first YA book I’ve read as an adult, and I thought it was lovely.  It is warm, cute, and refreshing. ⁣⁣Synopsis: When seventeen-year-old Mia gets the opportunity to study ballet in Paris the summer before her senior year of high school, she takes it. Intent on performing well enough in the […]

“For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be […]

Have you ever read a writer whose ideas are so intriguing, their reflections so acutely human, that you want to crawl into their mind and let their thoughts envelop you for a while? For me, that writer is Knausgaard and he wrote a 3600-page novel, broken into six volumes, so …