Category: Contemporary
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Review: HOW TO WALK AWAY by Katherine Center
Thank you so much St. Martin’s Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she’s worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiancé she adores, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just…
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Review: THE GLITCH by Elisabeth Cohen
Thank you so much Doubleday Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Shelley Stone, wife, mother, and CEO of the tech company Conch, is committed to living her most efficient life. She takes her “me time” at 3:30 a.m. on the treadmill, power naps while waiting in line,…
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Review: MY EX-LIFE by Stephen McCauley
Thank you so much to Flatiron Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: David Hedges’s life is coming apart at the seams. His job helping San Francisco rich kids get into the colleges of their (parents’) choice is exasperating; his younger boyfriend has left him; and the beloved…
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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: 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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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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Book Review: THE ONES WE CHOOSE by Julie Clark
Many thanks to Gallery Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: The powerful forces of science and family collide when geneticist Paige Robson finds her world in upheaval: Her eight-year-old son Miles is struggling to fit in at his new school and begins asking questions about his biological…
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Review: THIS I KNOW by Eldonna Edwards
Thank you so much to Kensington Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Eleven-year-old Grace Carter has a talent for hiding things. She’s had plenty of practice, burying thoughts and feelings that might anger her strict Evangelical pastor father, and concealing the deep intuition she carries inside. The…
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Review: THE GARBAGE TIMES/WHITE IBIS by Sam Pink
Thank you so much to Soft Skull Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: From the freezing alleys of Chicago to the dew-blanketed bayou of Florida. From bouncing drunks and cleaning up puke to biking through the swamp laughing at peacocks. Freeze to thaw. Filth and broken glass…
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Book Spotlight: LITTLE BIG LOVE by Katy Regan
Thank you so much to Berkley Publishing for sending me this gorgeous copy! I am so excited to read this book…check out the excerpt from chapter one below! Advance praise for Little Big Love “Fans of Jane Green and Susan Wiggs will enjoy British journalist Regan’s modern family drama that explores the age-old question of…