Category: Book Review
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Elevation by Stephen King
There has never been a poorly written Stephen King anything – novel, novella, short story, or even twitter post – and Elevation is no different. Do I claim it as one of my all-time favorite King stories? Not at all, but it is still a great read! Elevation is more than a story about a…
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On the Way to You by Kandi Steiner
Kandi Steiner is the Queen of Angst and definitely delivers with this one. What makes you happy? That is a question we would all do well to consider in our lives. Steiner does a great job making one think through this question in an applicable way, all while confronting everyone’s internal fear: “… I don’t…
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The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
Oh how I love a good ghost story, and this one is better than good.
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Best of 2019
With this post, I join the ranks of many a bookish blogger by posting my favorite reads of 2019. I am limiting it to my top 5 favorites. They are not in any specific order. Beartown by Fredrik Backman – Backman is a author I’ve only recently added to my list of favorites, and this…
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Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
John Grisham has world-wide acclaim as one of the best legal thriller authors in America, but that didn’t stop him from a slight derailment into – can we call it – comedy.
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Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
“It’s the nuances of desire that hold the truth of who we are at our rawest moments. I set out to register the heat and sting of female want so that men and other women might more easily comprehend before they condemn. Because it’s the quotidian moments of our lives that will go on forever,…
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IT by Stephen King
Welcome to Derry, Maine…the supernatural nexus of all things Stephen King (did you detect a bit of fangirl in the inflection?).When I think about the epic horror odyssey we all know as IT, I don’t think about Pennywise the clown, the iconic red balloon, or even little Georgie telling his big brother, “We all float…
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The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
“There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry…They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.” How does one find the words to review a book – fiction not fiction/memoir not memoir…
Peace In The Margins 