The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout Elizabeth Strout is a wonderful writer. She’s best at constructing characters, and then pulling them apart, showing them (and us) that they aren’t who they thought they… Continue reading
Talk about a book I couldn’t wait to get back to! This book has it all. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter is laugh-out-loud funny and also very touching at times; a mixture of… Continue reading
Right off the bat, I should tell you that The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey is not the kind of novel that I usually read. I have trouble with “magical” tales. With the… Continue reading
It has taken me so long to pull my thoughts together about this wonderful collection of short stories by Jennifer Haigh. News from Heaven is basically about a collection of characters from Bakerton,… Continue reading
When I was pregnant with our first child, Manfrengensen admitted to me that he could only hear the word “placenta” so many times. Based on that admission, I am going to go out… Continue reading
The second book I’ve read this year is Triburbia by Karl Taro Greenfeld. Like many books these days, Triburbia is written in what I like to call Welcome to the Good Squad style.… Continue reading
One of my goals this year is to try to read 50 books. Note the keyword in the sentence is “try.” The closest I have come to 50 is around half that number… Continue reading
