Y'all. I know what you're probably thinking... "A review, on a Tuesday?? What's up with that?" But when I finished Theo Tan and the Fox Spirit, I just had to share my thoughts! Also, thanks to The Wandering Jellyfish Bookshop for helping me find this book. As some of you know (or have gathered) fantasy [...]
Inkberry Books came through with yet another fascinating story. Justin Courter’s The Heart of it All is a little bit mid-life-crisis, a little rebellious and extremely engaging. This review originally appeared in the May 25th edition of the Left Hand Valley Courier. (and here's the vlog!) We first meet narrator John Ritter shortly after he’s [...]
Wow, you guys, I didn't 100% know what I was getting into with Judithe Little's historical fiction novel The Chanel Sisters, but I am so glad that I picked it up and finally read it! (Real quick--here's the link to my vlog for this fantastic novel) Taking place between 1897 and 1921, Little takes readers [...]
When I first picked up James Patterson's Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, I wasn't sure what to expect. Then to find out that it's also a movie was a surprise too. (speking of videos, here's a link to my vlog!) The story is told in part by Katie Wilkinson, a New York City book editor who is in [...]
I can't mince words here. Naja Marie Aidt's poetic-memoir When Death Takes Something from You Give it Back: Carl's Book is heavy. In it, she explores grief and love relating to her then-25 year-old son's death in 2015.(For the accompanying vlog, click here!) Right off the bat, I'm going to say that if death is [...]
*Cue Bing Crosby* Happy Holidays! Have I got a story for you...twas two weeks before Christmas, and all through the house, I sat there reading Jenny Colgan's Christmas at Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop, quiet as a mouse. I gotta say, when I first picked up the book, I thought it would be appropriate for the holidays, but [...]
They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but that's definitely one way I go about picking my books. I don't know if it was the flowers or the fact that it reminds me of a painting in my grandmother's house, but when I stumbled across Catherine Banner's The House at the Edge of [...]
A Little Bit of Happiness 