Book Review: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Yale lay on the couch that night, listening as Terrance tossed in his sheets, as he whimpered through his night sweats. Yale closes eyes and watched himself, the night of the memorial, from high up on...
View ArticleBook Review: The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
First I sink, Then I trickle, Then I rush. I am here; and here; and here. I touch this surface and also that. I mingle, I quiver with a thousand voices, and all these voices my own. I am a great tumble...
View ArticleBook Review: The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis
In her signature style, Fiona Davis reaches into the past to find a part of New York history and uses it as the scaffolding for an impressively imagined work of fiction. The Masterpiece weaves together...
View ArticleBook Review: Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
On the back there's a date stamp of when the photo was printed-and because when I count back nine months it falls exactly on the month my family and I fled from Columbia and arrived in L.A., I turn...
View ArticleBook Review: The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton
The wind blew and the trees moaned, and thunder rolled down the river to take the house within its clutches; while inside, talk turned to spirits and curses. There was a fire, crackling in the grate,...
View ArticleBook Review: The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle
"Sometimes it is impossible to move forward without understanding what happened." Conrad. "What did happen?" Audrey says. I keep my eyes on the table, but I still feel his eyes on me. I wish you were...
View ArticleBook Review: The Rain Watcher by Tatiana De Rosnay
I tell the story now, once, so that I don't have to tell it again. I'm not good with words, whether they are spoken or penned. When I'm finished, I will hide this. Somewhere it won't be found. No one...
View ArticleBook Review: The Little Shop of Found Things by Paula Brackston
Every soul that once trod this brutal earth leaves their imprint upon the things that matter to them. The things that they held, the things that once echoed the beat of their hearts. That heartbeat may...
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my favorite shelf full of my favorite reads Hi all! I've decided to take this blog in a new direction with more in the moment sharing to include upcoming book releases and informal reviews of backlist...
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