Many thanks to Touchstone Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: In the 1990s, a “purity industry” emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a …
Blog Tour & Review: I’D RATHER BE READING by Anne Bogel
Many thanks to the wonderful Anne Bogel and Baker Books for providing my free copy – all are my own. About the Book: For so many people, reading isn’t just a hobby or a way to pass the time–it’s …
Review: OKAY FINE WHATEVER by Courtenay Hameister
Thank you so much Little, Brown and Company for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: For most of her life (and even during her years as the host of a popular radio show), Courtenay …
Review: CHARLOTTE WALSH LIKES TO WIN by Jo Piazza
Thank you so much to Simon and Schuster for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Charlotte Walsh is running for Senate in the most important race in the country during a midterm election that …
Review: JELL-O GIRLS by Allie Rowbottom
Many thanks to Little, Brown and Company for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: In 1899, Allie Rowbottom’s great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to …
Review: SEX AND THE CITY AND US by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Thank you so much to Simon and Schuster for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: This is the story of how a columnist, two gay men, and a writers’ room full of women used their …
Review: FROM THE CORNER OF THE OVAL by Beck Dorey-Stein
Thank you so very much to Random House for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein is working five part-time jobs and just scraping by when a posting on Craigslist lands her, …
Review: MANY LOVE by Sophie Lucido Johnson
Many thanks to Touchstone Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: After trying for years to emulate her boomer parents’ forty-year and still-going-strong marriage, Sophie realized that maybe the love she was looking …
Review: ROBIN by Dave Izkoff
BIG thanks to Henry Holt for providing my free copy of ROBIN by Dave Itzkoff – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Dave Itzkoff shows in this revelatory biography, Williams’s comic brilliance masked a deep well of conflicting emotions …
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 …