Category: Doubleday

  • Review: FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

    Review: FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

    Thank you so much Doubleday Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug…

  • Review: THIS BODY’S NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US by Edgar Cantero

    Review: THIS BODY’S NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US by Edgar Cantero

    Thank you so much to Doubleday Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Book Description:  In a dingy office in Fisherman’s Wharf, the glass panel in the door bears the names of A. Kimrean and Z. Kimrean. Private Eyes. Behind the door there is only one desk, one chair, one…

  • Review: SOCIAL CREATURE by Tara Isabella Burton

    Review: SOCIAL CREATURE by Tara Isabella Burton

    Thank you so much to Doubleday Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line, with nothing but the stars over them… They drink and Lavinia tells Louise about all the places they will go together, when…

  • Review: THE GLITCH by Elisabeth Cohen

    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,…

  • Book Mail: THE PLANT MESSIAH by Carlos Magdalena

    Book Mail: THE PLANT MESSIAH by Carlos Magdalena

    This looks like a book for any nature nerd! Plus it has a super neat cover and pretty color photographs! It’s always fun to learn about our beautiful planet and more importantly, how to preserve it. Thank you so much Doubleday Books for sending me this lovely free copy!  SYNOPSIS:  Carlos Magdalena is not your…

  • Review: TRENTON MAKES by Tadzio Koelb

    Review: TRENTON MAKES by Tadzio Koelb

    Thank you so much Doubleday Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Book Description:  1946: At the apogee of the American Century, the confidence inspired by victory in World War II has spawned a culture of suffocating conformity in thrall to the cult of masculine privilege. In the hardscrabble industrial…

  • Book Mail: THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT by Chris Bohjalian

    Book Mail: THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT by Chris Bohjalian

    THIS BOOK has been on my radar for a long, long time so many thanks to Doubleday Books for sending me this gorgeous free copy! I cannot wait to read it! SYNOPSIS:  From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest Room, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight…

  • Gorgeous Book Mail: SOCIAL CREATURE by Tara Isabella Burton & FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

    Gorgeous Book Mail: SOCIAL CREATURE by Tara Isabella Burton & FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

    These covers are just amazing! They take my breath away! Thank you so much to Doubleday Books for sending me these free copies! I am equally excited to read them both. They sound fantastic! I’ll leave the synopses below.  SOCIAL CREATURE –  They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line,…

  • Exciting Book Mail: TRENTON MAKES by Tadzio Koelb

    Exciting Book Mail: TRENTON MAKES by Tadzio Koelb

    This one popped up on my radar awhile back so I was ecstatic when I received a copy! Thank you so much to the wonderful and generous Doubleday Books for sending me a free advance copy! I am so excited to review this one! SYNOPSIS:  A vivid, brutal, razor-sharp debut about a woman who carves…

  • Review: THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES by Hiro Arikawa

    Review: THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES by Hiro Arikawa

    Thank you so much to Penguin Random House and Doubleday Books for my free advance copy – all opinions are my own. “Life, be it human or feline, doesn’t always work out the way you think it will.” Summary: Satoru runs into a stray cat from time to time and ultimately starts to leave food…