Book Review: Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing This collection of essays by Lauren Hough doesn’t pull any punches. It doesn’t try to teach a lesson or force a happy ending. It just is what it is. The story of a complicated life. […]
One of my 2021 Goals, along with reading 52 books, is to write a short review of each book on Goodreads. In most cases it’s just a sentence or two, but better than just star ratings. Here are the 9 books I […]
Book Review: The Same River Twice: A Memoir of Dirtbag Backpackers, Bomb Shelters, and Bad Travel by Pam Mandel My Rating: 4 Stars This book captures well the confusion and uncertainty of people in their late teens and early twenties. For the […]
Perfectly Impossible by Elizabeth Topp My Rating: 4 Stars This was a fun read. It was actually my first “walking around” book of the year– you know, the one you carry around with you because you don’t want to stop reading. Anna […]
A Deadly Edition by Victoria Gilbert My rating: 4 of 5 stars A fun and fast-paced read from author, Victoria Gilbert and Crooked Lane Books. This cozy mystery is book number five in the Blue Ridge Library Mystery series. Amy Webber is […]
The Honest Enneagram: Know Your Type, Own Your Challenges, Embrace Your Growth by Sarajane Case My rating: 3 of 5 stars If you follow Enneagram and Coffee on Instagram, you will recognize the author Sarajane Case. The book is thorough and can […]
The Night Swim by Megan Goldin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Strong trigger warning to anyone sensitive to discussion of rape and sexual assault. Some descriptions are graphic and could be upsetting. Choosing the audiobook rather than a print copy book […]
Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear by Matthew Salesses My rating: 3 of 5 stars Matt Kim is a man who feels himself slowly disappear. People bump into him in the street as if they can’t see him and his actions appear to have no […]
Siobhan O’Brien is the unlikely name of the Korean-American private detective at the heart Sung J. Woo’s Skin Deep. Sioban takes on a missing persons case involving a family friend that comes with a multitude of complications. She gets frustrated by all […]
In the most convenient of coincidences, I began reading Becoming Duchess Goldblatt at the same time as I was reading The Circle by David Eggers. Both books are about being connected through social media but where the Duchess forms genuine meaningful connections, […]