Despite the month of February being the shortest of the year, I managed to buckle down and get a good amount of reading done. I’ve been trying to stay on top of getting reviews written and staying aware of my deadlines. There was a whole lot of snow […]
The Scammer Thank you to Quill Tree Books for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. JORDYN MONROE IS FINALLY FREE. Out from under her overprotective parents, Jordyn is ready to kill it in prelaw at a prestigious historically Black university in […]
I finished January with 21 ARCs left to be read. February is now over, and it was a wild ride. Here in New York, the cold weather and the snow have continued. The temps were so low and we got snow in record breaking amounts. This kind of […]
A Very Novel Murder Thank you to NetGalley and Storm Publishing for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Opening a detective agency above her beloved bookstore seems like the perfect business plan—until Annie Murray’s first case involves a suspicious death […]
I can’t believe that the last month of the year is here. Now is crunch time for me on catching up about everything, so I haven’t been posting as regularly as I would like, but I’m planning to work my way back. I just have to figure out […]
I finished October with 20 ARCs left to be read. Is it just me, or did November feel like it lasted eleventy billion days? The month started out warm and cooled off a lot more, even having some frosty nights and one day of flurries but no actual […]
On Being Jewish Now: Essays and Reflections from Authors and Advocates On October 7th, 2023, Jews in Israel were attacked in the largest pogrom since the Holocaust. But Jews everywhere felt it and came together to process and to speak out in ways they never had before, like […]
The Magnificent Ruins Thank you to Algonquin Books for sending me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Lila De is on the verge of a breakthrough in her career at a New York publishing house when she learns that her grandfather has […]
The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah Thank you to NetGalley and MIRA for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Can these exes rekindle their love this Hanukkah? Evelyn Schwartz has the perfect Hanukkah planned: eight jam-packed days producing the live-action televised […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “A secret is a terrible thing. It starts […]
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