Book Reviews

Review: THE GOLDFINCH

I’m not exactly stepping out on a limb, here, pulling a giant gold nugget out of a muddy creek, polishing...

Review: BRIDGE OF CLAY

The end of 2018 is fast approaching, so if you haven’t read anything all year that’s knocked you over, or...

Educated by Tara Westover

A memoir by a woman in her early thirties? Really? Really. Tara Westover has already lived a life–a number of...

Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary by Martha Brockenbrough

Alexander Hamilton…My name is Alexander Hamilton…There’s a million things I haven’t done…Just you wait, just you wait… So you’ve seen...

Monsters of Men/Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness

Monsters of Men: Whew! The breakneck pace I noted in my review of The Knife of Never Letting Go and...

Slaughterhouse Five

The Book and Kurt Slaughterhouse-Five captured my imagination (the book) and admiration (the author) on my initial read (way back...

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Can a Knife Be a Page-Turner? I’m late to the book, but I just finished The Knife of Never Letting...

The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith

What the Hell’s an Alex Crow? The Alex Crow: unbridled imagination, inspired (and inspiring) storytelling. Andrew Smith’s tale isn’t for...

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Wow! There are a few books I’ve read that deserve their own category, their own frame of reference or comparison....

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

Sometimes you read an award-winning book and you think, Hmm. Sometimes you think, Good choice. And then you read one...

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