Tag: fiction

bookstagram book reviews fabruary-march 2021
March 7, 2021 • book reviews, reading •

More #Bookstagram Book Reviews

I’ve had a decent run of fiction reading over the last few weeks, and am continuing my Instagram book-review project. Here are the latest ones I’ve shared on #bookstagram.

Transcendent Kingdom
Written by Yaa Gyasi
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on September 1, 2020
ISBN: 9780525658191
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Format: ebook
Pages: 288
Source: purchased
A Good Neighborhood
Written by Therese Anne Fowler
Published by St. Martin's Publishing Group on March 10, 2020
ISBN: 9781250237286
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Format: ebook
Pages: 320
Source: purchased
A Children's Bible: A Novel
Written by Lydia Millet
Published by W. W. Norton & Company on May 12, 2020
ISBN: 9781324005049
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Format: ebook
Pages: 240
Source: purchased

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“The Queen’s Gambit” – A Novel to Television
January 13, 2021 book reviews, reading

“The Queen’s Gambit” – A Novel to Television

I broke one of the cardinal rules with The Queen’s Gambit–I watched the Netflix adaptation before reading the book. To be fair, I hadn’t even known it was a book first. It’s not a novel that would not have been on my radar when it was first published (1983). It isn’t one I’ve heard talked about much since. But I started reading the source material just days after watching the seven-hour TV series, and I […]

The Year That Wasn’t: In The Books
December 31, 2020 reading

The Year That Wasn’t: In The Books

I have my doubts this space will ever be a proper “book blog” again. Then again, I’m not sure it ever was. Books were what prompted me to start blogging and they’re part of what keeps bringing me back. Even so, they’ve never been all I talked about here. But I am here to talk about books right now. For the most part, I’ve been able to keep reading through The Year of Our Coronavirus, […]

A Mid-Year Check-In: Bookkeeping
July 8, 2018 A Reader's Journal, reading

A Mid-Year Check-In: Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping: The Reading Year in Review (Without Reviews) Contributing to Shelf Awareness taught me how to craft a concise, structured book review. I’ve never really mastered the “bite-size” capsule book discussion, though–not on LibraryThing or Goodreads, not on Instagram or Litsy, and definitely not here. My book posts here tend to skew high on the word-count side. I’d like to think I write long reviews because I read books that give me lots to think and talk […]

THE DEVIL AND WEBSTER by Jean Hanff Korelitz [Book Review]
August 3, 2017 book reviews, reading

THE DEVIL AND WEBSTER by Jean Hanff Korelitz [Book Review]

I received this book for review consideration from the publisher, via Shelf Awareness for Readers. All opinions are my own. The Devil and Webster Written by Jean Hanff Korelitz Published by Grand Central Publishing on March 21st 2017 ISBN: 9781455592388 Genres: Fiction, Literary, Contemporary Women, Family Life Format: ARC Pages: 368 Source: publisher, via Shelf Awareness for Readers From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known and Admission, a twisty new […]

THE MOTHERS by Brit Bennett [Book Thoughts]
February 23, 2017 book reviews, reading

THE MOTHERS by Brit Bennett [Book Thoughts]

The Mothers Written by Brit Bennett Audiobook read by Adenrele Ojo Published by Penguin on October 11th 2016 ISBN: 9780399184536 Genres: Fiction, Literary Format: audiobook Pages: 288 Source: purchased Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett’s mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. “All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we’d taken a moment to […]

THIS IS NOT OVER by Holly Brown [Book Thoughts]
February 7, 2017 book reviews, reading

THIS IS NOT OVER by Holly Brown [Book Thoughts]

I received this book for review consideration from the publisher, via Shelf Awareness for Readers. All opinions are my own. This Is Not Over Written by Holly Brown Published by William Morrow, HarperCollins on January 17th 2017 ISBN: 9780062456830 Genres: Fiction, Suspense Format: ARC Pages: 400 Source: publisher, via Shelf Awareness for Readers When 30-year-old Dawn reads Miranda’s email, she sees red. People have always told Dawn she’s beautiful, and she just hopes they don’t […]

THIS IS THE STORY OF YOU by Beth Kephart [Book Thoughts]
January 26, 2017 book reviews, reading

THIS IS THE STORY OF YOU by Beth Kephart [Book Thoughts]

This Is the Story of You Written by Beth Kephart Published by Chronicle Books on April 12th 2016 ISBN: 9781452142845 Genres: Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, General Format: ebook Pages: 264 Source: purchased On Haven, a six-mile long, half-mile-wide stretch of barrier island, Mira Banul and her Year-Rounder friends have proudly risen to every challenge. But then a superstorm defies all predictions and devastates the island, upending all logic and stranding Mira’s mother and brother on […]

WE ARE UNPREPARED by Meg Little Reilly [Book Thoughts]
January 24, 2017 book reviews, reading

WE ARE UNPREPARED by Meg Little Reilly [Book Thoughts]

We Are Unprepared Written by Meg Little Reilly Published by Mira Books on August 30th 2016 ISBN: 9780778319436 Genres: Fiction, Literary Format: ARC Pages: 368 Source: publisher Meg Little Reilly places a young couple in harm’s way—both literally and emotionally—as they face a cataclysmic storm that threatens to decimate their Vermont town, and the Eastern Seaboard in her penetrating debut novel, WE ARE UNPREPARED. Ash and Pia move from hipster Brooklyn to rustic Vermont in […]

WHEN SHE WOKE by Hillary Jordan [Book Thoughts]
January 19, 2017 book reviews, reading

WHEN SHE WOKE by Hillary Jordan [Book Thoughts]

When She Woke Written by Hillary Jordan Published by Algonquin Books on 2012 ISBN: 9781616201937 Genres: Fiction, General, Dystopian Format: ebook Pages: 354 Source: purchased Bellwether Prize winner Hillary Jordan’s provocative new novel, When She Woke, tells the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromedÑtheir skin color […]

BURN BABY BURN by Meg Medina [Book Thoughts]
January 17, 2017 book reviews, reading

BURN BABY BURN by Meg Medina [Book Thoughts]

Burn Baby Burn Written by Meg Medina Published by Candlewick Press on March 8th 2016 ISBN: 9780763679989 Genres: Fiction, Young Adult, General Format: ebook Pages: 320 Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam who shoots young women on the streets. Nora’s family life isn’t going so well either: her bullying brother, Hector, […]

THE WANGS VS. THE WORLD by Jade Chang [Audiobook]
December 9, 2016 book reviews, reading

THE WANGS VS. THE WORLD by Jade Chang [Audiobook]

The Wangs vs. the World Written by Jade Chang Audiobook read by Nancy Wu Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on October 4th 2016 ISBN: 9780544734203 Genres: Fiction, Literary, Asian American Format: audiobook Pages: 336 Source: purchased THE WANGS VS. THE WORLD is an outrageously funny tale about a wealthy Chinese-American family that “loses it all, then takes a healing, uproarious road trip across the United States” (Entertainment Weekly). Their spectacular fall from riches to rags […]