Published: February 12th, 2019 Genre: Literary Fiction/Historical Fiction My Rating: 5/5 Stars I’ve been staring at my screen for a good five minutes now, wondering where to begin with a review of this book. I guess I’ll start with this — I loved it. I received an advance copy for review and a giveaway from… Continue reading THE NIGHT TIGER BY YANGSZE CHOO
Published: January 8th, 2019 by Scribner Books Genre: Fiction/Literary Thriller First off, let me say a huge thank you to the team at Scribner Books for sending me this copy of Looker by Laura Sims. I was fascinated by the description, and although the thriller genre is one I tend to avoid, I was intrigued… Continue reading LOOKER BY LAURA SIMS
Published: October 2018 By Tin House Genre: Literary Fiction My Rating: 5/5 Stars First of all, many thanks to the fantastic people over at Tin House for sending this gorgeous copy my way for review! All opinions are my own… but let me tell you, I loved this book. Luckily, just before starting it I… Continue reading BITTER ORANGE BY CLAIRE FULLER
Published: May 2018 by Katherine Tegen Books My Rating: 4.5/5 Stars Genre: Literary Fiction Sometimes, in this age of Bookstagram, it feels like I have so many expectations for every book I pick up to read. Whether it’s from the media release sent to me by the publisher, or from the countless other bloggers whose… Continue reading A LITE TO BRIGHT by Samuel Miller
Recently (and by recently I mean in June and July because it took me that long to get this blog post up) I gave myself a fun summer reading challenge… read a whole bunch of books about mermaids all in a row. Really, it came about when I realized that I had accumulated a number… Continue reading LiteraryJo Reads About Mermaids
Published: February 6th, 2018 Genre: Literary Fiction My Rating: 4/5 Stars When I got this book in my Book of the Month box, I had heard a lot of good things and was excited to read it. But despite by 2018 New Year’s Resolution to read my Book of the Month picks in the same… Continue reading AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE BY TAYARI JONES
Published July 17th, 2018 by Flatiron Books Genre: Literary Fiction My Rating 4/5 Stars You might remember my obsession last summer with The Resurrection of Joan Ashby…it was pretty intense. From the very beginning of that incredible novel I was enchanted and I gushed about on Instagram, in real life to anyone who would listen, and… Continue reading THE FAMILY TABOR BY CHERISE WOLAS
Published: May 8th, 2018 by Flatiron Books Genre: Literary Fiction My Rating: 5/5 Stars I’ll just go ahead and jump right in – I LOVED this book. Receiving it was a surprise… the lovely people over at Flatiron Books sent me a copy along with my most anticipated read of 2018… The Family Tabor. I was… Continue reading MY EX-LIFE BY STEPHEN MCCAULEY
Published: March 20th, 2018 by Doubleday Books Genre: Literary Fiction My Rating: 4/5 Stars When Doubleday Books reached out to me about this one, I jumped at the chance to read it. Trenton Makes is described as the story of “a woman who carves out her share of the American Dream by living as a man.” That… Continue reading TRENTON MAKES BY TADZIO KOELB
Published March 13th, 2018 by Simon & Schuster Genre: Literary Fiction My Rating: 4/5 Stars First of all, thank you to Simon Books for gifting me this beautiful book (#partner). Not only did they send me an ARC copy, but also a stunning finished copy. As someone who loves to read hardcovers at home and… Continue reading LAURA AND EMMA BY KATE GREATHEAD
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