Our hero, Samantha Arias, is conflict avoidant. So conflict-avoidant in fact that she has a sleep disorder where she needs to take a nap whenever she feels stress or a fight coming on. This is exactly what she wants to do when she learns that not only does her best friend Katie maybe have cancer Read more
There are any number of reasons for why you might want to form a book club. Maybe you want the discipline that comes from deadlines to help you finish books and get you back into reading. Maybe you don’t know what to read next and you want others to help you pick some real winners. Read more
It might seem like a waste that with all the impossible millions of books out there waiting to be read, I would ever choose to read a book twice (or in the cases of these books, sometimes 5+ times). When it comes to these best nostalgic books though, that’s the only way to go. Once Read more
I was just as surprised as the next person when Atomic Habits by James Clear entered my life in such a big way this year. When it comes to building new good habits (or ridding myself of bad ones) through New Years Resolutions, I am pretty typical. Like so many others before me, I tend Read more
All this certainty and calm is in large part due to this truly fantastically researched and written book, Atomic Habits. I’m no stranger to self-improvement books. Especially ones that deal with behavioral psychology (I can’t get enough of them!) So when I received a very clever marketing email from the author, James Clear, I figured Read more
Having read The Woman in Cabin 10 before, I was already familiar with the writing style of crime novelist Ruth Ware. With One by One, she breaks the mold to tell the story through the eyes of two very different women experiencing the story from two different perspectives. Inspired by Agatha Christie‘s all-time best-seller, And Read more
It’s human nature to seek out thrills. This is likely a leftover from the way our brains are hard-wired to expect them from when we lived on the Savannah and were often hunted for food by saber tooth tigers. We now (mostly) live in safe little bubbles, but our brains remember what it is to Read more
When I sat down to write this review of Where Have All the Boys Gone?, I was genuinely conflicted about what I wanted to say. Full disclosure, I have been a big fan of Jenny Colgan‘s books for a long time. For a lot of reasons, she is one of my favorite authors in the Read more
The problem of Where have all the Boys Gone? mostly stems from the fact that I, like many other reviewers online, thought this was a new book by Jenny Colgan. The way it was promoted in marketing emails, the notifications we were sent, the “recommended reading” lists, all made it seem like she had written Read more
Long a fan of the YA Fantasy novel genre, I kept hearing friends talk about how much they had loved A Court of Thorns and Roses (often referred to as ACOTAR online). Eventually, I decided I might as well see what the fuss was about for myself. I’m so glad I did. Favorite Quotes from Read more