My first encounter with Ruth Ware’s work was when I read The Turn of the Key quite by accident. I think I found it at the library and realized when…
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The Couple Next Door
March 16, 2023Fun book club pick to read during a very busy semester. Poorly written and weakly plotted, but I loved the ending!
Re Jane
January 20, 2023A refreshing revision of Jane Eyre with an absolutely savage take on academic feminism. OUCH. I’m not going to lie: it took me two distinct tries to get through this…
White Bird
January 9, 2023What can’t R. J. Palacio do? I mean, first the bestselling Wonder, of course made into a popular movie, and now spin-off stories based on characters from Wonder… and in…
The Maid
October 13, 2022The premise does not seem original (the hook on the front cover: “YOU DON’T SEE HER. BUT SHE SEES YOU…”) nor does the narrative gimmick of an individual with ASD…
Gone Girl
August 17, 2022Nefarious characters, noir plot. I, for one, loved the end. Weaponizing reproduction–what a concept. I did not like like Amy, but I respected her and I think it would be…
The Keeper of Lost Things
July 20, 2022Ruth Hogan’s novel is a cozy, multi-layered love story about a woman who inherits a gorgeous home full of catalogued found objects that she is tasked with returning to their…
Guncle
June 14, 2022If you’ve never read Patrick Dennis’s Auntie Mame, you might miss out on some aspects of Guncle. So go read that, then listen to the Broadway musical (Angela Lansbury and…
Eight Detectives
May 28, 2022The blurbs on the back are all true: this is one of the most creative detective novels I’ve read lately. There are homages to Christie, Chesterton, Conan Doyle, Marsh, etc.…
The Paris Apartment
May 13, 2022After a semester so busy with literature courses that I had no time to read anything just for fun, I am finally back! For the record, The Paris Apartment is the title…