Just a quick peek at my Netgalley shelf! Four great books to carry me through this month. I can't wait to start them! I have four reviews to write this weekend as well so I'm going to be busy. Here's a look at what's to come: The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti … Continue reading Preview: My Netgalley TBR
But every slave thinks about it. In the morning and in the afternoon and in the night. Dreaming of it. Every dream a dream of escape even when it didn’t look like it. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is a poignant look at the oppression of slavery and one girls attempt at escape. Know … Continue reading Book Review: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Hi all. I thought I would step waaaay outside my normal format to give you some insight into my sporadic posting of late. Basically I was rolling along at a nice, steady pace and then WHOMP... dead end, inspiration lost. I've been slowly working back into reviewing (let's not kid ourselves, I've still been reading) … Continue reading Life Review: Absence explained+upcoming review preview
Everything happened fast after that. There was chorus of alarms, a jerking of movement. A mask over her face. In that final moment before everything went dark, Maribeth thought— less in fear than a sort of awe— how easily it could all leave you. Maribeth is an overworked editor, devoted mother of 4-year-old twins and … Continue reading Book Review: Leave Me by Gayle Forman
The lines were drawn. Everyone would have to choose a side. Everyone would join a network. Networks of light. Networks of people. Networks of power. Networks of money. Bringing together some of history's most well known scientific inventors - Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse and one important, though largely unknown, lawyer, Paul Cravath, Graham … Continue reading Book Review: The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
But still. I should have known right away that something wasn’t right. Quinn is swept up in a spiraling whirl wind of fear and self-doubt when she discovers her roommate, Esther, missing- the window left open to the fire escape below and the curtains fluttering in the breeze. At first Quinn doesn't believe anything is … Continue reading Book Review: Don’t You Cry by Mary Kubica
It was not large, and it had no frame. As an image, it was simple and at the same time not easily decipherable- a girl, holding another girl's severed head in her hands on one side of the painting, and on the other, a lion, sitting on his haunches, not yet springing for the kill. … Continue reading Book Review: The Muse by Jessie Burton
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