Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan is a book that’s hard to put down. It will tug at your heartstrings while also forcing you to question who and what you believe and why…among other things.
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Book Review: Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing will transport you to literal and spiritual places. Read this book when you’re in an introspective mood about your history, or your family’s history. Or if you’d like a glimpse into the history of the Deep South of the United States.
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Book Review: Green Dot
Green Dot by Madeleine Gray is a novel I won’t forget any time soon. It takes the hard-to-see meta realities of our world (because we’re immersed in and living them) and dwindles them down into tangible bits we can consume in a highly digestible and very readable narrative.
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Book Review: Just My Type
I read a bit of anything and everything, so my mind stays nimble, while my thinking and writing stay grounded (at least partially) in the real world. I don’t typically read or review that many romance novels each year but might start reading and reviewing at least a few more in the future. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post to see why, and my thinking behind this; it just might encourage you to see the romance genre in a different light too.
On to today’s book review: Just My Type by Falon Ballard is a romance novel that will make you laugh as you consider your own relationship patterns and vices. It’s an endearing novel that offers a safe and non-judgmental space for introspection.
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Book Review: Birnam Wood
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton is quite the page-turner. Catton’s writing style is intoxicating.
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Book Review: How to Think Like a Woman
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna was like a balm for my soul. It’s a deeply personal and introspective work that is also universal and accessible to those of us who are constantly battling with how we are perceived and portrayed (and often ignored or discarded) in life, love, and intellectual pursuits.
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Book Review: The Great Reclamation
The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng offers a journey into a rich history of a region most of us probably know close to nothing about. And does so with wonderfully complex characters who will continue to both surprise and frustrate you as you read.
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Book Review: Frankissstein
Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson is unlike any book I’ve ever read. I’ve never read sexually graphic scenes so close to philosophical inquiries, so close to song lyrics, so close to notable passages of literature. Yet, somehow, Winterson pulls these unconventional combinations off in this novel. And all the various pieces of the novel and its multiple narratives come together by the end of the novel, which means that you should definitely read this novel to the end.
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Book Review: A Mystery of Mysteries
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak lays out why we all are still obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe and his death long after he has passed. And that the mystery of his death, and the intrigue around it, explains him, his life, and his work more than we think it does.
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Book Review: Our Best Intentions by Vibhuti Jain
Our Best Intentions by Vibhuti Jain is a book that will have you second-guessing your own intentions and biases about the world and the people in it. As you read, you will become more and more immersed in the world of the Kitchewan community and its inhabitants.
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