Odessa Thank you to NetGalley and Little, Brown and Company for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. In a powerfully imagined Russia at the height of the pogroms, a grief-stricken family turn to ancient magic to bring their daughter back […]
The Lost Girl of Craven County Thank you to NetGalley and G.P. Putnam’s Sons for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A decade into the Great Depression, Millicent Green is a twenty-five-year-old “old maid” living with her marriage-obsessed mother and […]
The Marriage of Opposites From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro; the Father of Impressionism. Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas […]
I have managed to amass so many books that I am really excited for this post. It isn’t going to take a lot of thinking back through lists of books that I have read and only vaguely recall. This week’s prompt is the first ten books I randomly […]
Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict An award-winning journalist presents an even-handed, thoroughly researched examination of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and illustrates how a shocking yet little-known massacre one century ago in what was then Palestine became ground zero of […]
Hi all! This week’s prompt coincides with Christmas Eve, and I’m obviously going to have to tweak the prompt because Santa doesn’t bring me anything. However, this week’s prompt is getting readjusted to books my family won’t buy me for Chanukah. I am going to go the extra […]
April was hectic for me. The weather was gross, with windy rainstorms for so much of the month, and on top of that, we had the kitchen redone. It was spur of the moment, so a lot of the month was spent wondering where things were and just […]
The Boy with the Star Tattoo Thank you to William Morrow Paperbacks and Tess Day for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. From the acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage, of love […]
I finished February with 29 ARCs left to be read. Spring is definitely in the air, and I’m happy to see the weather starting to warm up and things starting to grow again. March was a busy month for me, but I still got a lot accomplished. I […]
Anything But Yes Thank you to Edelweiss and Monkfish Book Publishing for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: antisemitism, religious intolerance, grief, torture, self-harm, trauma “An intricately detailed novel of resistance and community.” — Kirkus Reviews This beautiful new […]
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