Karen Thompson Walker is a master at showing us what everyday people deal with during an apocalyptic event. She did it brilliantly in The Age of Miracles and I’m so glad she’s back with another…
Browsing Category Fiction
Once Upon a River
I loved Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale, a wonderful gothic mystery with storytelling at its heart, but I was really disappointed with Setterfield’s second book, Bellman & Black. I’m happy to report fabulous storytelling is…
The Future Will Be BS Free
The world in Will McIntosh’s The Future Will Be BS Free isn’t that hard to imagine. An authoritarian wannabe is president of the United States, she has close ties to Russia, the rich are getting…
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Korede is the smart daughter with a stable job and a good head on her shoulders, yet her beautiful, flighty, younger sister Ayoola, who simply walks into a room and men fall for her, is…
Royal City Vol. 1 & 2
In Royal City Vol. 1 by Jeff Lemire, struggling author Patrick Pike hasn’t visited his hometown of Royal City, a small, failing factory town, in a long time, but when his dad has a stroke…
Catty, Bitchy Fun
This was a delightful surprise since I loathed Knoll’s first book with a frothy passion. It was such a pile of hot garbage that I think I kinda got The Favorite Sister just because I…
Only Killers and Thieves
I occasionally like a good western. It’s probably because I loved watching all the Lonesome Dove movies with my dad. He was a smartass jokester, just like Lonesome Dove’s Gus, and he got a kick…
Force of Nature
Whenever someone at work describes after-work team building exercises, I cringe, rightfully so, but Jane Harper made them even more cringe-worthy in her latest mystery, Force of Nature. Five female colleagues, on a corporate weekend…
It’s Got a Good Slow Burn
Ayobami Adebayo’s Stay With Me, was a slow starter for me. In fact, I started reading it in like October or November of last year and returned it to the library unfinished. It wasn’t working…
It was a Cliched & Predictable ‘Mystery’
A.J. Finn’s The Woman in the Window is one of the most buzzed up books of 2018. It’s been on every “most-anticipated” list I read and has blurbs from Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, and Ruth…
All Joan, All the Time
I’ve read a lot of Joan Didion in my life, but sometime in November after seeing her nephew’s documentary about her, “The Center Will Not Hold”, I decided to read her again from start to…