The beauty of reading a book like Shadow and Bone for your book club is that Fantasy truly can unlock the imagination. It’s easy to insert yourself into the story of someone who lives a life relatively close to yours. To think about what you would do in a situation not that far out of Read more
Conversations with Friends was the debut fictional novel of now-established literary darling, Sally Rooney. It’s also a complicated novel to talk about. Even after reading it twice, I genuinely still don’t know how I feel about it. On one hand, the writing is sharp and interesting. It pulls you along enough that I read the Read more
Girl A by Abigail Dean is the kind of book that sticks with you. When I first heard about this debut novel that was taking the literary world by storm, I had to take a moment. I wasn’t sure I wanted to read it. As another reviewer pointed out, recent history makes this really not Read more
If you are looking for the next True Crime book to add to your book club list, you can’t do much better than Girl A. Dark and riveting, Girl A by Abigail Dean is an in-depth look at the psychology of how childhood trauma can playout for the adults involved. Be ready for some deep Read more
Anatomy of a Scandal is a complex book that brings up a lot of moral and ethical questions. Do the privileged get held to a different standard than your average joe’s? How does a person’s position, especially in the government, get them out of scrapes? This book is incredibly topical in the era of the Read more