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REVIEW: Longbourn
A short review of Longbourn by Jo Baker. This is not the first Jane Austen spin-off novel I have read, and it certainly won’t be the...
Dec 31, 2024


REVIEW: Conversations on Love
A short review of Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn. The 2020s is the age of introspection, and authors have not shied away from...
Dec 28, 2024


REVIEW: All the Colors of the Dark
A short review of All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker. When my friend Bea introduced All the Colors of the Dark by Chris...
Oct 30, 2024


REVIEW: This Motherless Land
A short review of This Motherless Land by Nikki May. I was lucky enough to receive an Advanced Reader’s copy of This Motherless Land by...
Aug 9, 2024


REVIEW: Arrangements in Blue
A short review of Arrangements in Blue by Amy Key. I found Arrangements in Blue because of Dolly Alderton. While scrolling through...
Apr 8, 2024


REVIEW: Godmersham Park
A short review of Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby. I am a Jane Austen superfan. I first read Pride and Prejudice when I was 13 years old...
Mar 19, 2024


REVIEW: How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
A short review of How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz. “Desahogar: to undrown, to cry until you don’t need to cry no...
Mar 16, 2024


REVIEW: The Chase of the Wild Goose
A short review of The Chase of the Wild Goose by Mary Gordon. This month is LGBTQ+ history month! To celebrate it, I chose to read some...
Mar 2, 2024


BLOG: The Reading Slump
The dreaded reading slump is something most of us have experienced. Especially to those who grew up voraciously reading everything that...
Feb 17, 2024


REVIEW: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
A short review of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins. In 2012, the Hunger Games craze had taken over the world. As a...
Jan 16, 2024


REVIEW: Bright Young Women
A short review of Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll. In my first year of University the Netflix documentary series about Ted Bundy was...
Nov 5, 2023


REVIEW: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
A short review of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is a novel published and translated from Korean in . The...
Sep 25, 2023


Author Review: Emily Henry
Author review of Emily Henry. Modern romances have been the most up-and-coming book genre seen all over the internet. There are a few...
Aug 28, 2023


REVIEW: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
A short review of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. “Unobserved, a graying man watches two teenagers swim in a...
Aug 14, 2023


REVIEW: Utopia Avenue
A short review of Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell. With the Daisy Jones and the Six craze in full force on social media, I stumbled...
Apr 1, 2023


REVIEW: The Secret History
A short review of The Secret History by Donna Tartt. When I say this book is all over social media, I mean it is ALL over social media....
Dec 2, 2022


REVIEW: Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes
A short review of Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes. I have long loved Greek myths. Growing up, I had children’s copies of the Iliad and...
Mar 7, 2022


If You Like Agatha Christie...
During quarantine in 2020 I picked up my first Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackyroyd. I finished the book in one sitting, audibly...
Dec 31, 2021


REVIEW: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
A Short review of All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Since the age of 12 I have been very wary of reading books about World...
Dec 25, 2021


REVIEW: The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
A short review of The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow. I have always adored Jane Austen. I read Pride and Prejudice in middle school...
Aug 7, 2021


REVIEW: Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
A short review of Ghosts by Dolly Alderton. I was gifted Dolly Alderton’s last book, Everything I Know About Love, for my 19th birthday...
Feb 14, 2021


My 5 Star Books of Quarantine
I find I have read many great books over my lifetime, but there has to be something very special to make something 5 stars for me. Over...
Oct 29, 2020


REVIEW: Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given
A short review of Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given. The week before I read this book, I had a conversation with two of my...
Oct 21, 2020
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