Publisher: Berkley Page Count: 384 Year Published: 2020 You know that feeling when you read the first five pages of a book and you’re already so invested in the story that it’s basically impossible to put down? Well, I had that feeling with Beach Read. I loved everything about this story. The pacing, the characters, […]

Publisher: Flatiron Books Year Published: Page Count: Genre: Memoir Thank you to Alisson Wood, who sent me a gifted copy in exchange for an honest review! TW: sexual assault, grooming⁣

Publisher: Ballantine Books Page Count: 352 Year Published: 2020 Thank you @juliaheaberlin and @randomhouse for my ARC. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣So, I’ve decided I need a few things to really enjoy a thriller – I prefer psychological thrills more than horror, I need a protagonist I can get behind, and I need the end to logically follow from all the clues, including […]

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Genre: Literary Fiction; Classic Page Count: 325 Year Published: 2004 (first published 1811) Last August, I said I was going to read all of Jane Austen’s works within one year of finishing The Jane Austen Society. Well, I recently finished Sense and Sensibility, which I read first at the suggestion of […]

This book. This book. This book. Before reading it, it was a book I was intimidated by and too scared to read because I thought I’d love it and didn’t want to be disappointed. But, I read it and it’s one of my favorite books of all time. Yes, I ordered The Little Friend and The Goldfinch and am […]

Lotto and Mathilde are college seniors at Vassar when they meet at a party and their connection is explosive – they marry soon after meeting. The union confuses Lotto’s friends and family, who think Mathilde is mysterious and averagely attractive, and are perplexed because she seemingly has no past. Mathilde is considered cold, a stark […]

Just Mercy is required reading. No ‘should be’ about it. Bryan Stevenson was a Harvard Law student questioning his path, wondering if he’d made a colossal mistake in choosing law when he spent a few weeks working with the Southern Prisoners Defense Committee. An encounter with an inmate on death row allowed Stevenson to find […]

TW: Sexual Assault I finished this memoir weeks ago. I stare at my blank word document, trying to summarize my feelings about it, but end up deleting whatever I say. This is, hands down, the most important memoir I’ve ever read. As you likely know by now, Miller is the survivor of a sexual assault […]

Jane Austen is a writer whose stories I love, whose writing a find alluring and romantic, and yet, is a writer who I rarely read. I regularly remark that I want to read of all of her work, but years go by and her work remains unread by me, with the minimal exception of books […]

This novel follows three Palestinian women living in Brooklyn, NY on two timelines—Deya, Fareeda, and Isra. Deya is eighteen with dreams of attending college and finding romantic, passionate love. Fareeda, Deya’s grandmother, believes that woman’s place is in the home and prefers Deya marry instead of attending college. In fact, she’s started arranging meetings with […]