Teresa Driscoll spent years as a reporter writing about crime, and she brings that experience into her writing (The Promise, The Friend, I Am Watching You). Apparently, there are characters from her earlier books in her latest one, I Will Make You Pay, but I haven’t read those and didn’t feel like I was missing …
True confession: I haven’t yet read The Tattooist of Auschwitz, despite wanting to – just haven’t felt mentally or emotionally stable enough on any given day to get into it. And When I received it, I did not realize that Cilka’s Journey is a sequel, so my review is perhaps not fair…but here goes anyway. …
For fans of Isabel Allende, quality fiction in general, and historical fiction in particular, The Long Petal of the Sea (to be published in early 2020) is another stunning work by an amazing author. Allende’s books do what my favorites do: they teach while they entertain. A Long Petal of the Sea follows a young …
Thanks to Harper Collins and NetGalley, I was fortunate to receive a copy of Ann Patchett’s latest book, The Dutch House, in exchange for my honest review. I was a big fan of Bel Canto and Commonwealth, so my expectations were quite high going in… The story focuses on Maeve Conroy and her younger brother …
I’ve been a non-meat eater for over 30 years…but I sometimes eat fish–or as my friend put it, “oh, you’re a HYPOCRITE!” So I don’t exactly qualify as a vegetarian, let alone a vegan…but I aspire to eat healthy, so I was very happy to receive a copy of Nadine Hom’s Vegan Everything from The …
I’m not totally clear what an “emotion scientist” does, but have long been interested in the concept of “emotional intelligence” and Brene Brown’s shame-focused research. Dr. Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is a professor in in the Child Study Center at Yale , and the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.Thanks to Celadon Books …
Nearly ten years ago I read Amy Waldman’s book The Submission, in which a Muslim woman submits a blind entry in a contest for a post-9/11 memorial, and the selection of her design sets off a complicated series of events. Ms. Waldman’s latest book, A Door in the Earth, revolves around an Afghan-American woman named …
I have a TBR list that is way too long, and Lisa Jewell’s The Family Upstairs has been repeatedly sinking to the bottom of that list for way too long! I generally like the psychological suspense/woman in danger genre, so when Atria Books and NetGalley provided me with a copy in exchange for my honest …
An American Spy is the third in the series by Steinhauer featuring super spy Milo Weaver. Thanks to St. Martin’s/Minotaur Press, I received a copy in exchange for my honest review. I’m truly unclear why I wanted to try this third one…I read the first two, and in my review for the second one, I …