If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere like me, we’re heading into the long, hot days of summer. This week’s prompt is a summer-themed freebie, and my all-time favorite thing about any summer ever was the chance to go swimming. It didn’t matter whether it was a pool, a […]
Houses of Detention Thank you to Ari @ Mindbuck Media for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. So what’s a nice girl from a good family doing in a place like the Bronx House of Detention? Like many immigrants who flee […]
I finished March with 14 ARCs left to be read. I can only speak for myself, but April was a hot mess of a month over here. For the first half of the month, my mother was dealing with medical issues which are thankfully being addressed and treated. […]
The Magic Maker Thank you to Brother Mockingbird and Mickey Dubrow for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. In 1917 on New York City’s Lower East Side, Baruch Rosenfeld invites a beggar to join his family for the Passover Seder. Baruch’s […]
The Familiar Fate can be changed. Curses can be broken. In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers that […]
The Forbidden Book Thank you to NetGalley and Levine Querido for providing me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Dybbuks. Illegal printing. A genderqueer lesbian with a knife. Set against a backdrop of literary censorship and growing Jewish political consciousness, Sydney Taylor and […]
Happy December! November was a really fun month for me—I was so excited to finally take a vacation and refresh my spirit. I hadn’t realized exactly how burnt out I was becoming until I had a break from my regular life. I’ll be returning home this week, and […]
I finished October with 21 ARCs left to be read. November was a whirlwind of a month. I started it in New York, and flew down to Florida to spend Thanksgiving with my family members, and go to my youngest great-nephew’s fourth birthday party. I also got to […]
The Judgment of Yoyo Gold Thank you to NetGalley and Philomel Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A smart and powerful story set in the Orthodox Jewish community about what it means to fit in, break out, and […]
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: “It was seven in the evening, and Clara […]
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