I listened to this book for my neighborhood book club–I confess I would never have picked this title out on my own–but I found it gripping. The audio book on…
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The Widows of Malabar Hill
June 25, 2024Sujata Massey’s series of detective novels set in 1920s India starts off with an intriguing glimpse into the lives of Muslim pardanashin, women who live in seclusion. The three widows…
The Reading List
June 7, 2024To be honest, what attracted me to this novel by Sara Nisha Adams was, first, that it’s set in a West London neighborhood and, second, that it’s got a couple…
It Girl
July 9, 2023My 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…
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…