A Bookish Holiday

Alex North has done it again! The man behind the successful The Whisper Man--a personal favorite--is at it again with his follow up...

Diane Zinna's The All-Night Sun (Random House, expected pub. date is July 14, 2020) is one of the most haunting and beautifully written...

What a sweet little historical middle grade read! During one summer of WWII, eleven-year-old Julie and her six-year-old sister Martha...

Hugo winner Hao Jinfang's Vagabonds details life a century after the Martian war for independence. A delegation of students from Mars is...

I went into this reading pretty excited. I enjoyed The Escape Room and the summary of this one sounded spot on. Rachel Krall, who runs a...

It's day...who knows...of self-isolation as the craziness of the coronavirus continues. But luckily, I've got lots of good books to keep...

Well...Mother Nature decided that even though it's spring, what we really needed among a global pandemic and increasing stay-at-home...

The best books are like warm cups of tea: fulfilling, satisfying, brimming with life. And that's the type of book I got when I read Anita...

Candlewick/Walker Book has done it again. Katherine Orton's Nevertell is a lovely book and one I'd highly recommend for its lush prose...

This is a fabulous little book that you can fly through in one sitting. I love the tone--it's not preachy or judgmental, but rather...

Five bright stars! Everything about this book drew me in. I was first caught by the fleur-de-lis and hooked by the premise of a book set...

In 1995, six college students come together in a ramshackle house. They share a tenuous bond, sometimes getting along, but more than...

I've heard of Leslie Rule and her mother, Ann, but I've never read anything of theirs. After A Tangled Web, I think I will have to remedy...

Full disclosure: I had been trying to win this ARC FOREVER. No dice every single time. And then, by a small miracle, I found it in my...

Love to read? Love to put your thoughts about those books into reviews? I've wanted to do this post for awhile, but like so often happens...

Let me start by saying that there are a lot of positive things about this book. The cover is lovely, the title is compelling, and I...

So far, all of my knowledge of mermaids is a sweet Disney Princess and the terrifying monsters from Harry Potter’s Tri-Wizard Tournament....

Let's just talk about this cover for a second--it's the first thing that drew me to this book. It's beautiful. And so perfect to what we...

How have I forgotten to post my review of this amazing book? Life's gotten in the way and I haven't been as connected to updating my book...

What can I say about this one? Almost a week after finishing this one, it's still with me. I don't usually dwell on books for so long,...