Note: This is the first of three blog posts that reviewing some of the superlative books of the past reading year. This week is about the long books I read, next week is about non-fiction, and in three weeks, I tell you my favorites. The great thing about books is that they can be read…
Category: Book Club
A Story to Talk About: A Time to be Silent
Sometimes cool opportunities fall into your lap. Around the time I published my book, I was connected to a number of Indie authors around the county. One of them was Ben Avery… who then asked if I would be interested in being part of an anthology he was putting together. I knew nothing about writing…
A Book to Talk About: I’m Glad my Mom Died
Man, we should gather to talk just about the title of this book. I read the memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy last week and I can’t stop thinking about it, for a lot of reasons. And I think this is a good book to talk about. However, what I want to…
A Book to Talk About: Fourth Wing
Today, we’re talking a little detour from the normal weekly blog post. Oh, yeah, there’s still a book to talk about, but I AM NOT recommending it for a book club. But I read it and I want to talk about it. If you’re on Bookstagram, you’ve probably seen it as you skimmed your feed….
A Book to Talk About: The Book of Joy
Have you ever read a book that just made you smile? Like, you read the words in the voices of the people speaking and a smile breaks across your face? This is how I felt for the whole of my reading of “The Book of Joy” by His Holiness the Dalia Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu…
A Book to Talk About: The All-American
Just in time for Labor Day, a book as American as apple pie. Maybe it should have been featured at a different summer holiday, but this is when I finished reading it–and it’s still baseball season and a book fits whatever season you read it. This book was just released this summer and it was…
A Book to Talk About: Babel: An Arcane History
So, after plugging away at it for a while, I finally finished Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang. While it was not the book that I had planned for today, but I just need to talk about it with someone. (Mild spoilers ahead.) This is the second book I purchased at a pop-up book…
A Book to Talk About: Project Hail Mary
When I was a kid, one of my favorite things was the Scholastic Book Fair. The teacher would send home the notice and I would do extra chores and scrounge my change so I could buy myself a new book. I would visit the little shop every chance I could during the three days it…
A Book to Talk About: The Unfortunate Life of Genevieve Ryder
I’m back!! It’s been a crazy few months launching my very first book!! And I thought that The Unfortunate Life of Genevieve Ryder would make a PERFECT book to talk about. After all, that’s one of my main goals for this book: that people read it and talk about it. Don’t have your own copy…
A Book to Talk About: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
But then I read it..and while yes, it is about those things, but it is so much deeper and more beautiful than that. It’s a love story between two friends that spans 30 years.
