I REALLY liked Catherine Steadman’s Something In the Water from 2018, so I was happy to receive a copy of her latest, Mr. Nobody, from Random House-Ballantine and NetGalley, in exchange for my honest review. The protagonist, Dr. Emma Lewis, is a psychiatrist who has been to examine a man who has apparently washed up …
Full disclosure: I am not a fan of the current President. Secondary disclosure: that is perhaps the understatement of the year…but I was intrigued by the premise of Diarrhea Diaries: Trump’s Tweets That Give Us the Runs, edited by Robert J. Emery, who also writes novels under the name R.J. Eastwood. Mr. Emery is a …
While I was reading Therese Anne Fowler’s contemporary novel A Good Neighborhood, it felt like a very simple story, but there is so much going on, it’s going to make a great book club selection! Thanks to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley, I stayed up late into the night to find out WTH was going …
I’ve been a fan of espionage fiction FOREVER, but admit I haven’t read much espionage nonfiction—in fact, I sort of thought all the “good stuff” would never be approved for publication. So I was a bit ambivalent about Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox (which I received thanks to Knopf …
I’m one of the people who hasasked myself what I can possibly do to make sure the Trump Administration ENDS with the 2020 election. I’ve tried to find ideas for this goal in particular as well as general ideas for ways to improve my sadness and negativity – to give me hope! David Plouffe, most …
Having been diagnosed with IBS over 20 years ago, and having tried repeatedly to find out exactly what the best eating style was for me, I was very happy to receive a copy of Tara Rochford’s book The 14-Day Elimination Diet Plan from Callisto Media/Rockridge Press in exchange for my honest review. I can’t count …
The premise of Such a Fun Age attracted me: it sounded like it had a lot of potential to explore issues around white privilege, misogyny, racism, feminism, black fetishism, peer pressure…you get the idea. I figured it couldn’t do all that without turning into a polemic…surely the story would be lost? Seriously, it is Kiley …