Category: Book Reviews
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Review: ANOTHER SIDE OF PARADISE by Sally Koslow
Many thanks to Harper Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: In 1937 Hollywood, gossip columnist Sheilah Graham’s star is on the rise, while literary wonder boy F. Scott Fitzgerald’s career is slowly drowning in booze. But the once-famous author, desperate to make money penning scripts for the silver…
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Review: THE PERFECT MOTHER by Aimee Molloy
Thank you so much to Harper Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: They call themselves the May Mothers—a group of new moms whose babies were born in the same month. Twice a week, they get together in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park for some much-needed adult time. When the women…
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Review: WELCOME TO LAGOS by Chibundu Onuzo
I’m so thankful to Catapult for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: When the army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows it is time to desert his post. As he travels toward Lagos with Yẹmi, his junior officer, and into the heart of a political…
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Review: THE HOUSE SWAP by Rebecca Fleet
Thank you so much Penguin Random House UK and Pamela Dorman Books for providing my free copy of THE HOUSE SWAP by Rebecca Fleet – all opinions are my own. Book Description: When Caroline and Francis receive an offer to house swap–from their city apartment to a house in a leafy, upscale London suburb–they jump…
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Review: YOU THINK IT, I’LL SAY IT by Curtis Sittenfeld
So many thanks to Random House for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them. Now, with this first collection of short fiction, her “astonishing gift for creating characters…
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Review: SEE HER RUN by Peggy Townsend
Many thanks to Amazon Publishing for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: A former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Aloa Snow knows what it means to be down and out. Once highly respected, she’s now blackballed, in debt, and dealing with the echoes of an eating disorder. Until she gets one more…
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Review: BARRACOON by Zora Neale Hurston
Thank you so much to Harper Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the…
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Review: BLACKFISH CITY by Sam J. Miller
Thank you so much to Ecco Books for providing my copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The city’s denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod…
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Book Review: PROPERTY: STORIES BETWEEN TWO NOVELLAS by Lionel Shriver
Thank you so much Harper Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much…
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Mini Book Review: IN CONCLUSION, DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT by Lauren Graham
Thank you so much Random House for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: In this expansion of the 2017 commencement speech she gave at her hometown Langley High, Lauren Graham, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, reflects on growing up, pursuing your dreams, and living in the here and now. “Whatever…