March Wrap Up
Wow! I can’t believe March is pretty much over already! This month was a little better than last as far as reading goes. I read a total of 6 books, only one of which was an audiobook. If you made me...
View ArticleBook Review: Gone Girl
I am on the latest train when it comes to reading Gone Girl. When there’s a lot of hype surrounding a book I have one of two reactions: get sucked in and push my way to the front of the bandwagon, or...
View ArticleAudiobook Review: Bird Box
I first hear about Bird Box by Josh Malerman on the Books on the Nightstand podcast. They were recommending the print edition, but as I was browsing for my next audiobook I came across it. The story...
View ArticleAudiobook Review: Born Standing Up
I’ve said it before, but I guess I’m saying it again: Steve Martin is one of the most talented mofos on the planet. But, the thing about talented mofos is they tend to make the rest of us feel bad...
View ArticleBook Review: Redshirts
Any Trekkie will tell you: never be the one in the red shirt on the away team. This is the premise from which John Scalzi builds his story in Redshirts. Ensign Andrew Dahl is ecstatic to be assigned to...
View ArticleBook Review: Bittersweet
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore’s third novel, Bittersweet, is a long, winding, slow-burning fuse of a novel that leads to one hell of a stack of dynamite at the end. Mabel Dagmar is nobody special. She’s...
View ArticleBlog Tour: Flings
Welcome to my very first blog tour post! I’m so excited to have been invited by TLC Book Tours to be a part of promoting Justin Taylor’s new collection of short stories, Flings. Flings is a collection...
View ArticleBook Review: Sweetness #9
I don’t know what I was expecting when I started Sweetness #9. I had been hearing nothing but praise, I was vaguely aware of the Colbert connection, but hadn’t read so much as a plot summary before I...
View ArticleBook Review: Under This Beautiful Dome
Beautiful. Honest. Heartbreaking. These are just a few of the descriptors that can be applied to Terry Mutchler’s brave new memoir, Under this Beautiful Dome. It was the ’90s, the era of Don’t Ask,...
View ArticleBook Review: The Book of Strange New Things
As the first book I’ve managed to finish in 2015, The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber is holding a special place in my reader’s heart. Peter Leigh is an English minister who has been chosen...
View ArticleBook Review: The Girl Who Slept With God
You know those books that pop up randomly and suddenly they’re everywhere? That’s the experience I had with Val Brelinski’s debut novel The Girl Who Slept With God. I had been hearing murmurs around...
View ArticleBook Review: The Book of Speculation
Author: Erika Swyler Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Publisher Description: Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are...
View ArticleBook Review: Big Magic
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Publisher: Riverhead Books Publisher Description: Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Now...
View ArticleBook Review: Better Than Perfect
I’ve dealt with perfectionism for the majority of my life, in all aspects of it. In school, anything less than an A was unacceptable. I would never get into a good college, which meant I wouldn’t get...
View ArticleBook Review: Fates and Furies
Author: Lauren Groff Publisher: Riverhead Books Publisher’s Description: Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait...
View ArticleBook Review: Wildflower
Author: Drew Barrymore Publisher: Dutton Publisher’s Description: Wildflower is a portrait of Drew’s life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her...
View ArticleBetween You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (Book Review)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Author: Mary Norris Publisher’s Description: The most irreverent and helpful book on language since the #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves....
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