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• Best of 2017: Debut Novels

  

  2017 gave us a lot of great first novels, and as I’ve written before, first novels are often an author’s best work — maybe because it’s more raw, or maybe... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Books That Disappointed in 2017

  

  Amidst all the end-of-year best lists, these are books that didn’t quite live up to the hype. I’m not saying these were the worst books I read in 2017. Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Favorite Books of 2017

  

  Today’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is Best Books of 2017. I know I’m a big geek, but I love making end-of-year Best-Of lists. Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Science Fiction and Fantasy Mini-Reviews: Octavia Butler, N.K. Jemisin, and...

  

  Last month I read the final book in two trilogies, and I began a new one (that is really an old one). I’ll start with the new one. Parable of the Sower by... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Cookbooks to Give as Holiday Gifts

  

  I love food and I love books. So it makes sense that I’m semi-addicted to cookbooks, and buy way more of them than I can justify, given how much I actually cook... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My November Reading Wrap-Up

  November was a good month. I visited my family in Phoenix for an early Thanksgiving, and then the husband and I had a quiet (and easy) Thanksgiving at home. Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Top Ten Nonfiction Books Added to My TBR

  

  This week, I’m combining Top Ten Tuesday (this week’s topic: top ten books on my winter TBR) with Nonfiction November’s New to My TBR. Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Dad’s Red Dress by L.J. Sedgwick

  

  I loved this book by Irish author L.J. Sedgwick about a teenager who moves to Ireland with her transgender dad, her artist stepmother, and her younger sister... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Strangers in Budapest by Jessica Keener

  

  I was excited to read this novel about Budapest by Jessica Keener. Annie and Will are a young American couple who take a leap of faith and move to Budapest... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Artefacts and Other Stories by Rebecca Burns

  

  This is the third collection of stories by author Rebecca Burns, after Catching the Barramundi and The Settling Earth. Like The Settling Earth, these are short... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Nonfiction November: Books About U.S. Politics and Current Events

  

  This week’s Nonfiction November topic (hosted by Kim at Sophisticated Dorkiness) is to share 3 or more books on a single topic that we recommend, or books we... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Nonfiction November: My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

  

  For anyone who is thinking about becoming a lawyer, or trying to make the most of their legal career, I highly recommend Sotomayor’s memoir. Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Bonfire by Krysten Ritter

  I picked up this book from NetGalley because I loved Ritter in Jessica Jones. I know that acting and writing are completely different, but I feel like she must... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore

  This is my first novel by Helen Dunmore, a well-known British author of historical fiction. This was, in fact, her final book, as she died this summer of... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Kickoff to Nonfiction November: My Year in Nonfiction

  This slideshow requires JavaScript. This is Week 1 of Nonfiction November, and this year I’m going to do my best to follow it, because I’m reading so much... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My October Reading Wrap-Up

  

  Happy Halloween, readers! Hope you’re doing something fun tonight, whether it’s trick-or-treating with the kids or engaging in more adult festivities. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• October Science Fiction and Fantasy Mini-Reviews

  

  I read these books in September but didn’t have a chance to post any reviews, so now here we are at Halloween and these are three perfect Halloween-time reads. Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

  

  This is the third book I’ve read by Strout, and I found it even more moving than the other two (both excellent). Strout’s latest is set in the same place and... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

  If you’re a Jennifer Egan fan, you’ve already heard that this book is a bit different from her others, in that it’s traditional historical fiction. Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Reading the Rest of the Year

  It seems like I just made my fall TBR list, and here we are, mid-October with the year fading fast. I began October thinking “maybe I’ll just read whatever I... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE