Fiction Reviews

Based on the title alone, Maria Semple’s Today Will Be Different seemed like a novel with an uplifting outlook. At the same ...

Expecting to die from cancer, Lang does her best to make sure her husband survives without her. She leaves notes for important ...

My parents watched The Thorn Birds miniseries in 1983. My name is Megan, the same as the main character – it also ...

Almost all books can open your eyes to new experiences – whether it be new cultures, new points of view, or just ...

I hope you all had a Happy (and food-filled) Thanksgiving! I’m pretty sure it marked my first Thanksgiving ever without turkey and ...

With my ambitious yearly goal to read between 48 and 52 books (depending on the year), I don’t usually take the time ...

Thankfully, election season is over. I think we can all agree it was a long one – no matter who you backed. ...

From serious memoir to childhood favorite to suspenseful thriller – my last three books have been a little sporadic. The Couple Next ...

I’ve watched the movie The Secret Garden countless times since I was a child (it came out when I was about 7), ...

Jende and Neni Jonga have come to New York City (Harlem) from Cameroon to achieve the American Dream. After struggling to make ...

The magical Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique is set in the newly transferred United States Virgin Islands. The sparsely ...

Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club is about four Chinese-American mothers who immigrated from China to San Francisco and their daughters. Like ...

Emma Cline’s The Girls turned out to be the perfect novel to close out summer. It follows 14-year-old Evie Boyd during the last ...

Almost-eight-year-old Elsa’s best friend is her eccentric grandmother. Like her granny, Elsa is different. Different in a way that makes her good ...

Even though Kristin Hannah’s historical novel The Nightingale was one of last year’s bestsellers, I just now got around to reading it. ...

Sleeping Giants was the first book I received as part of Book of the Month. I joined the club towards the end ...

Bridge Daughter came to my attention when a friend, who happens to know author Jim Nelson, recommended it. Based on the concept ...

Confession: I’m probably in too many book clubs. My last post was about a novel I read for my book club, and ...

The Age of Miracles is the first book I’ve reread in a long while, and I’m really glad that I did. There ...