Fiction Reviews

Even though I read Oona Out of Order almost a month ago, I’ve thought about it almost every day since. I love ...

Happy February! I hope you’re staying warm! It’s freezing here (literally, below freezing for most of this week, according to the forecast). ...

Max Brooks’ Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre is a wild ride. It is told primarily through the journal ...

I had a really good reading month, one of my best in a long time! Most of my reads were shorter or ...

I first heard about Laura Taylor Namey’s young adult novel, A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow on one of my ...

This year absolutely flew by, and honestly, bring on 2021. I can happily announce that I made my reading goal this year, ...

As I have said time and time again, I really love Fredrik Backman’s storytelling. In the case of Anxious People, his latest ...

My reading month started off with a bang and then pretty abruptly crashed to a halt the week of Halloween. In that ...

I first heard about Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet on my favorite book recommendation podcast, All the Books, when Liberty Hardy raved about it. ...

It’s finally (already?) October! I’m sure I’m not alone in the feeling that 2020 has somehow been both the longest and shortest ...

How often do you give books a second chance? Until Fredrik Backman’s Beartown, I would’ve said never. And, if I’m being honest, ...

I recently read and adored The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. I haven’t been this excited to talk about ...

If you’re looking for a powerful coming-of-age story about a fiercely resilient girl, look no further than Tiffany McDaniel’s Betty. Based on ...

Rita Mae Brown’s novel Rubyfruit Jungle was quite revolutionary when it was first published in the 1970s. I had never heard of ...

The description of The Lightest Object in the Universe had me at “after a global economic collapse and failure of the electrical ...

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A Fletcher was a book that caught my attention primarily ...

Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies has been on my radar for what feels like forever — I’ve owned a ...

I really enjoy Katherine Center’s stories. I was a huge fan of How to Walk Away — like finishing-it-in-my-car-before-work huge — and ...

I’m sure many of you have read Andy Weir’s popular novel The Martian. For me, it was a rare re-read. I figured ...

Wow! Has it been a while since I’ve sat down to write a book review (and recipe!), but here I am, and ...