After reading Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin I can see why these kinds of easy-to-digest thriller/mystery books appeal to so many people. These kinds of books are fun and entertaining and just engrossing enough that…
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A Sweet Little Rock & Roll Time-Travel Romance
It’s not often I say this, but I could have used about fifty more pages of Mo Daviau’s Every Anxious Wave. It seems she needed just a little more space for her to get the…
Satanic Panic + Early Grunge + Fiery Friendships = Heart Eyes
Hannah Dexter was the kind of girl in class who barely registered. She was there, but nobody really noticed, until that day pretty, popular Nikki Drummond tells Hannah to get a tampon and plug her…
You Give Me Fever
Sigh. Where to begin? Elena Ferrante’s ‘Neapolitan Novels’ were the most engrossing, obsessive, fulfilling reading experience I’ve had in recent memory, maybe since Sweet Valley High Super Edition Perfect Summer came out in 1985. Only…
Puzzled by Fates & Furies
What comes next is going to be super spoiler-y. If that kind of thing pisses you off. Stop now. When I read that Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies was nominated for a National Book Award,…
The Great Midwestern Novel
As I sit here in front of my computer and try to come up with the words to explain why I enjoyed reading J. Ryan Stradal’s Kitchens of the Great Midwest so much and why…