I can’t even tell you how excited I am to bring you today’s author interview! Rufi Thorpe is one of the authors I discovered this year, whose books helped me get through this tough period. Her newest novel, The Knockout Queen is my favorite novel […]
The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s long awaited sequel to The Handmaid Tale, was one of the most anticipated books of this year. Of course it’s been one of the best sellers so far, and is topping all of the Best Of 2019 lists. If you’re […]
If you pay attention to bestseller lists, you’ve probably read Where the Crawdads Sing by now. It’s spent a billion weeks at the top of The New York Times Bestseller list and was Reese Witherspoon picked it for her book club. Part of what makes […]
I started a local book club back in January. We meet the last Saturday of each month. Generally I put three titles into an online survey for members to vote on. But since I knew Elizabeth Gilbert’s new novel City of Girls was coming out on June […]
Today I am thrilled to give you an interview with author Claire Fuller. Claire didn’t start writing until she was forty. Her three novels have been published by Tin House and have been translated into sixteen languages. Her first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, […]
When it comes to giving books recommendations, I’m asked about thrillers more than any other genre. It can be risky, taking a chance on a title with a lot of buzz, only to find out it’s a dud. Especially if you don’t get through many […]
When I first reviewed the list of contenders for PBS’s series The Great American Read, I may have strained an eyeball from rolling them so much. It was an eight-part TV series exploring the power of reading, through discussions of America’s 100 “best loved” novels, […]
It’s every book lover’s worst nightmare: Going to see a film adaptation of a beloved novel and absolutely hating it. It’s happened to me more times than I can count. These days I generally only watch the movie version of a book if I didn’t […]
While doing some blog related research over the weekend, I came across this 2014 article from Slate magazine which is adamantly, angrily opposed to the idea of adults reading what is considered Young Adult fiction. I’d go so far as to say the article […]
It is said that there is no such thing as an original idea. Everything we create, no matter how much we want to deny it, is influenced by something or someone who came before. Austin Kleon wrote a badass book about this, called Steal Like […]
