Book Reviews

I have to say, this was pretty much the perfect book to read while having to stay home due to COVID-19. Need to escape your world for a little bit? Fall into one where you can cross thresholds into other …

Looking for a royally fascinating, distracting read? I find that sometimes diving into a different period of history for a while can help me take a break from current events by letting me learn about something new and the British …

Note: Joli has also reviewed this book. Find her review here. I have been waiting on my library’s waitlist for Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens for MONTHS. Not because the library didn’t have a lot of copies (they …

Story: Katherine has always been the sister to obey the rules while her younger sister Eleanor has lived to disobey. After Ellie runs away from home and into the arms of the Nazi party in occupied France in the midst …

Dear Edward gave me sooo many feels. All the feels. I wondered when I started it why it seemed like so much is given away in the summary (the plane crash), but I soon saw that this book is SO …

A couple weeks before everything turned upside down, I had requested Mary Oliver’s essay collection Upstream from the library and was lucky enough to have it on hand as we started our isolation. The slim volume is Oliver’s reflections on …

In my opinion, Gillian Flynn’s crime thriller novels entice you in the same way that true crime documentaries do; Making a Murderer isn’t easy watching, but you have to finish it anyway. And I think that Flynn’s three novels Gone …

Before I picked up Other People’s Houses, I wondered if I possibly needed to read yet another book about the secrets and personal lives of the occupants of a suburban neighborhood. It turns out that if it is written by …

Life is a little weird right now, but one thing remains the same: our love of reading. Here’s what some of us are currently reading. How about you? Are you finding comfort in books? Cathy I’m currently reading A Prison …

While I like to keep my “work books” (as a school librarian) and my “home books” (aka those written for adults) generally separate, I’ve found myself reading and enjoying several middle grade novels lately. If you’re looking for a whimsical …