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    Hell and High Water: A Maeve Malloy Mystery Book Tour

    by Cathy November 4, 2020
    by Cathy November 4, 2020

    About Hell and High Water โ€ข Paperback: 282 pagesโ€ข Publisher: Level Best Books (March 31, 2020) Alaskan attorney Maeve Malloy isnโ€™t sure sheโ€™s cut out to be a lawyer. All she wants is to be treated like everyone else. Hiding her past, she …

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    Book Club Reading Roundup: November 2019 Edition

    by Megan November 30, 2019
    by Megan November 30, 2019

    As the year is wrapping up, the last book clubs of the year are upon us. I have just one more meeting and then I wonโ€™t see my book-loving friends again until 2020 โ€” I canโ€™t believe it! What a …

  • Book ReviewsFictionYoung Adult

    Review: Again, but Better by Christine Riccio

    by Jessica November 16, 2019
    by Jessica November 16, 2019

    If you had a chance to do over part of your college experience, would you? Shane has been doing college all wrong. Pre-med, stellar grades, and happy parentsโ€ฆsounds idealโ€”but Shane’s made zero friends, goes home every weekend, and romanceโ€ฆwhatโ€™s that? …

  • Book ReviewsFiction

    Review: Family Trust

    by Allison November 8, 2019
    by Allison November 8, 2019

    With the holiday season upon us, it is the perfect time to read a good family drama. The Family Trust is all of that and more. Family patriarch, Stanely Huang, learns he has pancreatic cancer and is faced with his …

  • Book ReviewsFiction

    Review: If Only I Could Tell You

    by Megan October 31, 2019
    by Megan October 31, 2019

    Hannah Beckermanโ€™s latest novel is about a family forever transformed by deep secrets. For decades, Audrey has hoped for her two daughters, Lily and Jess, to make amends. She desperately wants her two granddaughters to meet each other. Though Audrey …

  • Living Life BookishlyBook ListsFiction

    Book Club Reading Roundup: October 2019 Edition

    by Megan October 30, 2019
    by Megan October 30, 2019

    Fall is a wonderful time for cozying up with a good book, and can be a fabulous time for a book club meeting โ€” as long as everyoneโ€™s schedules align! This is definitely the time of year that it gets …

  • Book ReviewsFiction

    Review: Invisible as Air

    by Joli October 16, 2019
    by Joli October 16, 2019

    Trigger warning: stillbirth. A book review, for me, is always a little bit personal. I write about what I think of books based on my own preferences, my own experiences, my own values. You read a book from your own …

  • Book ReviewsFiction

    Review: Chronicles of a Radical Hag

    by Joli September 15, 2019
    by Joli September 15, 2019

    As a Minnesotan and a reader, I felt like I definitely needed to read a Lorna Landvik novel. Not only is she a writer, but she’s also a comedian whose shtick is Minnesotan humor. Clearly something I need to check …

  • Book ReviewsFictionSci-Fi/Fantasy

    Review: After the Flood

    by Megan September 13, 2019
    by Megan September 13, 2019

    Kassandra Montagโ€™s debut novel After the Flood takes place around a century after floods have covered the planet and most of the land is under water. In this new post-apocalyptic world, people survive in small land colonies, on ships, or …

  • Book ReviewsFictionLiterary Fiction

    Review: America for Beginners

    by Megan August 15, 2019
    by Megan August 15, 2019

    Ever since Joli reviewed Leah Franquiโ€™s novel America for Beginners last summer, I knew I wanted to read it. I was so excited to get the opportunity to participate in the current TLC Book Tour for the paperback release.ย  Pival …

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