Cloud Cuckoo Land

I hesitated to read this mainly because of it’s literal heft … reading in bed with this was not easy. …

Back to the beginning …

In this latest installment of character Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout returns us to the beginning of the global upheaval when …

Remember 2017? That angsty post-election trauma? This novel brings it all back through the lives of cousins and their family …

Transcendent Kingdom

It feels so lame to say: the only word to describe this book is TRANSCENDENT. The writing, the ethereal essence, …

The Giver of Stars

Part love story, part ode to literature, part ode to LIBRARIANS, this historical fiction set in the Great Depression is …

Slow Motion

I chose the book for the title … it’s been sitting on a pile of to-read for, um, two (three?) …

Deacon King Kong

I found this charming and I couldn’t wait each night to return to these characters. The harsh reality of the …

Gathering well

I heard Priya Parker interviewed on Brené Brown’s podcast Unlocking Us and was intrigued enough to purchase the book. Partly, …

The Night Watchman

After/during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, I started following more BIPOC Instagrammers and especially book-y types. And I …