Published: August 29, 2017 by Flatiron Books Genre: Literary Fiction My Rating: 5/5 Stars You know those books you read where you just have a sense, about twenty pages in, that you’re going to love it? Where even in the first few chapters, with no knowledge of what’s going to come or how the story… Continue reading THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY BY CHERISE WOLAS
Published July 2017 by Viking Books Genre: Literary Fiction My Rating: 4/5 Stars The very first thing that struck me about this book is that it reads like a memoir. It was so open and honest, and it felt so real that I did a couple of double-checks to verify that it was, in fact,… Continue reading WHAT WE LOSE BY ZINZI CLEMMONS
Published: September 2017 by Harper Books Genre: Literary Fiction My Rating: 4/5 Stars First of all, I want to say thank you to Harper Books for sending me an advanced digital copy of this book for review. The moment I found out that Nicole Krauss had written another novel, I had to have it, and… Continue reading FOREST DARK BY NICOLE KRAUSS
Published: June 2017 by Atria Books Genre: Fiction/ Women’s Fiction My Rating: 4/5 Stars I read this book earlier on in the summer and wrote most of a review when I finished it, but then never got around to polishing it up and posting. So now, with summer coming to a close, I thought I… Continue reading THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO BY TAYLOR JENKINS REID
CASTLE OF WATER BY DANE HUCKELBRIDGE Published: 2017 by St. Martin’s Press Genre: Literary Fiction My Rating: 5/5 Stars I was sent a copy of this absolutely gorgeous book from the author, and honestly I am so glad that he sent it my way. I’m not sure this is one I would have picked up… Continue reading CASTLE OF WATER BY DANE HUCKELBRIDGE
Originally Published in Swedish in 2016 This Edition Published: 2017 by Atria Books Genre: Literary Fiction My Rating: 5/5 Stars One of my favorite quotes about literature came from author Ernest Hemingway. “All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they really happened.” I keep coming back to this… Continue reading BEARTOWN BY FREDRIK BACKMAN
Published 2016 by St. Martin’s Press Genre: Literary Fiction My Rating: 4.5/5 Stars First things first, let me just say that Tiffany McDaniel is an incredible writer. I was lucky enough to be sent a signed copy of her book for review and it did not disappoint. Her prose is beautiful and poetic from start… Continue reading THE SUMMER THAT MELTED EVERYTHING BY TIFFANY MCDANIEL
Published 2017 by Riverhead Books Genre: Mystery/Thriller, Literary Fiction My Rating: 5/5 Stars I think I’ll start by saying that this was my first Paula Hawkins novel. Unlike almost everyone else in the reading world, I never read The Girl on the Train. It was everywhere… so many people were saying, “if you loved Gone… Continue reading INTO THE WATER BY PAULA HAWKINS
Published 2017 by Scribner Books Genre: Fiction/Mystery My Rating: 4.5/5 Stars Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore tells the story of Lydia Smith, a bookstore clerk whose life is turned upside down when her favorite patron of the bookstore kills himself in the shop’s upper room. What makes matters worse is the fact that the boy… Continue reading MIDNIGHT AT THE BRIGHT IDEAS BOOKSTORE BY MATTHEW SULLIVAN
Published: May 2017 by Pamela Dorman Books Genre: Literary/Contemporary Fiction My Rating: 5/5 Stars I love this book. I almost don’t want to write anything else about it. It’s fantastic. I loved it. What else do I need to say? I suppose the point of a review is to say why you feel a certain… Continue reading ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE BY GAIL HONEYMAN
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