While driving a carful of kids away from Funville at the beach in Delaware at night last June, I was pulled over for failing to turn on the car’s lights.…
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Mad Honey
October 19, 2024The story behind this book, revealed in authors’ notes, is fascinating: Jennifer Boylan Finney dreamed she was writing a novel with Jodi Picoult and tweeted about her dream the next…
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
July 24, 2024I 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…
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…
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…
Homegoing
June 20, 2021Phenomenal storytelling–I was mesmerized by the very balanced structure of the text. There’s an elaborate family tree at the front of the book that I kept returning to, as I…
Sleeping on Jupiter
June 2, 2021I liked this book, and I read it rapidly. I did think that Manil Suri’s review in the NYT was unfair. Roy did not leave as many loose ends in…
The Mother-in-Law
May 20, 2021Another neighborhood book club pick that provided a pleasant escape from reality while also reminding me to be grateful for my reality. My mother-in-law is the best, and I’m pretty…