Book Reviews

Rating: 4.5/5  ⭐ Ah Peter Swanson…he makes my heart happy. In his latest thriller, Nine Lives, Swanson gets back to what I love about him the most, […]

Rating: 3.5/5 ⭐ “Two women. A history of witchcraft. And a deep-rooted female power that sings across centuries”-need I really say more than that to get […]

Rating: 4/5 ⭐ Girls Can Kiss Now is a humorous, insightful collection of essays peering into pop culture and lesbian history with reflections by writer Jill […]

Rating: 4/5 ⭐ When I first volunteered to read Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades, I expected your everyday coming-of-age story of “brown girls” growing up […]

Rating: 4/5 stars *This is the second book in a series, following It Happened One Summer, so there are some spoilers to that novel in this […]

Rating: 3/5 The tobacco wives are the epitome of southern class. They are the wealthy wives of the Bright Leaf tobacco company executives, and their prestige […]

Rating: 4.8* “My grandmother always says sugarcoating things makes them easier to swallow, but it doesn’t change their base ingredients.” This was such a fun read! […]

4.0/5.0 The Postmistress of Paris tells the story of a small group of resisters who fight to protect the lives and works of writers and artists, […]

Rating: 3/5 stars First published in 1974, Passion and Affect is a collection of 14 stories by Laurie Colwin. On the surface, these stories don’t seem […]