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 …
Book Reviews
A couple weeks before everything turned upside down, I had requested Mary Oliverโs essay collection Upstream from the library and was lucky enough to have it on hand as we started our isolation. The slim volume is Oliverโs reflections on …
In my opinion, Gillian Flynnโs crime thriller novels entice you in the same way that true crime documentaries do; Making a Murderer isnโt easy watching, but you have to finish it anyway. And I think that Flynnโs three novels Gone …
Before I picked up Other Peopleโs 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 โwork booksโ (as a school librarian) and my โhome booksโ (aka those written for adults) generally separate, Iโve found myself reading and enjoying several middle grade novels lately. If youโre looking for a whimsical …
Every once in a while, you find a book that knocks you to your knees and shakes you to your core. A book that teaches you valuable life lessons and makes you rethink the way you view yourself and the …
When a book has a 4.52/5 rating on Goodreads with over 19,000 ratings, I expect to be drawn in and moved by it. The Things We Cannot Say met those expectations! Basically any time I was not reading this book, …
Have you ever looked at a picture of a dish from a fancy restaurant, or maybe youโve had this thought when eating at one yourself, and wondered why the portions are so small? After all, if you’re presumably shelling out …
When then-LQ contrib Kathleen told me she needed to stop writing for LQ so she could focus on the book she was writing, I was sad for us, but thrilled for her. While I expected her to be an awesome …