January 2025

    The Gut-Brain Paradox by Dr. Stephen R. Gundry, M.D.

    Publication Date April 15, 2025 I’ve known a number of people (indluding my daughter and my best friend) who swear by Dr. Gundry (as well as a few who swear AT him). I admit to being a sucker for self-help books that focus on nutrition as the way to improve health. And TBH he has …

    How To Be Enough by Ellen Hendriksen, Ph.D.

    Publication Date January 7, 2025 How To Be Enough by Ellen Hendriksen is one of those rare books that makes me feel like the author can read my mind…and provide some insight into my thoughts/behavior/whatever. It is definitely a book I WISH I could have read thirty (or more?) years ago, as it might have …

    Nine Minutes Eleven Seconds by L.V. Pederson

    Publication Date January 28, 2025 Nine Minutes Eleven Seconds. (9/11 — hmmm). Sounded good. Like my kind of thriller…started slow, and I never really got buried in it like I wanted to. Kept being conscious of how much was left to read — in the end, I confess I skimmed the last third or so …

    Whistle by Linwood Barclay

    Publication Date May 20, 2025 What did I just read? Oh wait, I didn’t actually read it — it turned out to be something I have generally thought of as impossible: this one was a DNF. I have read and reviewed many Linwood Barclay books over the years, and he has consistently been on my …

    I Will Blossom Anyway by Disha Bose

    Publication Date May 6, 2025 I’m not generally a fan of cozy novels, things that are touching and that explore family dynamics…except if there is some murder or mayhem involved. For some reason, I found myself with Disha Bose’s new book I Will Blossom Anyways (thanks to Random House-Ballantine and NetGalley in exchange for my …

    The Quiet Librarian by Allen Eskens

    Publication Date February 18, 2025 Back in 2014, I read The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens, at that time an author I’d never heard of. I loved it! But for some reason, I didn’t read anything else by Eskens until 2023, when I read and enjoyed Saving Emma. I also didn’t know that The …