Category: Goodreads Reviews
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2022 Reading Roundup
This is my 2022 reading roundup where I reflect on and share the stand-out books from last year’s reading life.
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Writers on Writers for Writers: How Reviews of Craft Books Can Help
If you are determined to check it off of your list of craft books that you have to have read to prove something to someone (including yourself).
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A Spate of Book Reviews: Revolution
Revolution does an excellent job of depicting modern high-school culture, revolutionary France historical drama, and how difficult relationships are in a time of intense grief.
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A Spate of Book Reviews: The Iron Trial
You will like this book if you’re looking for a simple, quick read about a unique “otherworld,” with a well-designed magic system.
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A Spate of Book Reviews: S.T.A.G.S
The book is a call-to-action for modern young readers. It encourages them to look beyond trusted governments, schools, and organizations to the fallible people in power who control them.
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Book Review: The Immortalists
Beginning The Immortalists after an astoundingly bad day resulted in intense nightmares. After the second dream of my dead father—deceased Jewish fathers being a major catalyst for the Golds in Chloe Benjamin’s book—my only option was to read my way past a night when the dark outside the bedroom window felt stuck inside of me.…
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Book Review: Eligible
If you’re one of the people in my life who wonders what all the fuss is about—why anyone (sometimes it seems everyone) still reads the six slim novels written by Jane Austen—Curtis Sittenfeld, a smart, funny, parent has written the delightful novel Eligible to show you why. Eligible follows all the characters you’d expect to find…
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Non-Fic Fridays: What Regency Women Did For Us
I loved my Finnemore Fridays, and soon I will find a legit way to bring them back, continuing my quest to spread the brilliance of John Finnemore far and wide (without bending any copyright laws). Until then, let’s talk non-fiction! There was a major swath of years between 25-35 where I don’t recall reading any non-fiction…