Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King. This was my first Laurie R. King book and I’ve already requested more from the library. I love her wri...

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson. Going in, this one felt too familiar, like maybe I had read it and DNF before? But I cou...

The Business Trip by Jessie Garcia. Interesting premise and kept me turning pages. The twist wasn’t that shocking, but I also didn’t expect ...

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid I've read everything by Taylor Jenkins Reid and always love her characters more than anything else. I ...

The Dime Museum by Joyce Hinnefeld I reviewed Joyce Hinnefeld's novel in stories for MicroLit Almanac - read it here ! The Dime Museum ...

I thought it would be fun to start doing monthly round-up posts. I used to do a series of the  picture books we read each week but that was...

Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson I love Kevin Wilson’s books and was lucky to get to see him at a bookstore talking about this latest novel...

The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston A friend recommended this book when I said the most “fantasy” I really read was parallel universes and ...

Magic Can’t Save Us: 18 Tales of Likely Failure  by Josh Denslow I reviewed Josh Denslow's latest collection for MicroLit Almanac -  rea...

How to Love a Black Hole  by Rebecca Fishow I reviewed Rebecca Fishow's latest collection for MicroLit Almanac - read it here ! How to L...

This blog is mostly book reviews but there's an overlap between reading and writing so I wanted to share my Substack, For the Love of Wr...

  A New Day by Sue Mell This has been one of my favorite books read recently, so please check it out! In A New Day, Sue Mell delivers a col...

I spent weeks with this book, letting my thoughts wander on Birkerts-inspired tangents, much like he did for other writers he mentions in hi...

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera Lucy and Savvy were the kind of girls everyone envied. However one night, Lucy is found covered in Savvy’s...

Walk Me to the Corner by Anneli Furmark I'm in a novel workshop where five of us are writing young adult novels, workshopping them a cha...

Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell I already loved Tasha Coryell from her Split/Lip Press collection ( which you can get your ...