Here are my honest reviews and ratings on a wide assortment of books – both new and from decades past.
by Cesca Major 4 Stars Sometimes it takes a tragedy to see the good that surrounds you. Emma lives a harried life. Trying to be a good literary agent, a good mother, a good friend, and a good wife. Failing at all of it. She can barely keep her head above water. Then on […]
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The Women by Kristin Hannah 3.5 Stars “We were the last believers, my generation. We trusted what our parents taught us about right and wrong, good and evil, the American myth of equality, justice, and honor.” Kristin Hannah’s long awaited novel The Women is a fast paced dive into the world of nurses serving
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Dark Matter by Blake Crouch 5 Stars If you could do it all over again would you? Would you open the door and travel through a life on the path not chosen? Jason Dessen is a brilliant quantum physicist, or rather was. Until he made his choice to walk away from research and live a
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre 3.5 Stars “There are moments that are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur” George Smiley was once a top spy at British Intelligence Headquarters (aka The Circus) but has now been forcibly removed. Soon he is pulled
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A complete fever dream of a novel. The story of one of the last Gunslingers in a “ world that has moved on”. The Gunslinger, and the Dark Tower series, is not your typical Stephen King offering and I struggle to even try and summarize the story of the first in the series. Roland, the
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A Touch of Stardust by Kate Alcott 3.5 Stars A Touch of Stardust is a fictional retelling of behind the scenes of the filming of Gone With the Wind. Julie Crawford lands a job working with notoriously intense movie producer David O. Selznic. She soon becomes an assistant to Carole Lombard but her true desire
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It’s hard to protect your humans when all you want to do is watch television. All Systems Red is the first book in the popular Murderbot series. It is set in a future where planetary exploration is run by corporations and androids are tasked with protecting humans. Told in first person from the perspective of
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