Fates and Furies

Every little review blurb that I saw about this book included the word “ambitious” in it somewhere. And, not to just jump on the bandwagon, but I cannot think of any other way to say how I feel after finishing this novel. There is no other way to describe the scope of what it covers…

Bad Feminist

“I am a bad feminist. I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.” I feel this quote deeply. I have many opinions and feelings about being a feminist and either stand up to or fail at my own expectations, depending on the week, the day, the hour. But I’m taking my…

Everything I Never Told You

This NY Times Bestseller has been on my TBR list for quite some time, so I was excited to find a copy of this at a local used book store. When I got home, I left it out on my couch, not letting myself put it onto a shelf before I read it. It’s so…

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

I’ve heard a lot about this book and all I have to say is that I regret taking so long to get to it. I postponed for a long time because I just am not really into science, so I thought a lot of it would be boring. And if I’m honest, I was also…

The Monster of Selkirk

As you all may remember, a few weeks ago I was super excited to participate in my very first blog tour for Immer, by Denise McFarland. So I'm sure you can imagine my further excitement when the response from everyone was so positive and I was chosen to participate in a second tour! So thank you…

Slow Horses

Slow Horses is definitely not from a genre I normally read...most clearly evidenced by the fact that I do not even have a mystery/thriller "shelf" on Goodreads and that it had to be added to contemporary lit. But it was chosen as this month's book for one of the book clubs I am in, which…

Scrappy Little Nobody

Like most people (I assume), I didn't really know much about (read: had literally never heard of) Anna Kendrick until after I saw Pitch Perfect. And even that I didn't do on my own. In fact, two of my best friends, upon hearing I had never seen it months after it had been out on…

Vassa in the Night

I'm not usually as into in urban fantasy as I am in other fantasy sub-genres. For some reason I tend to find them cheesier or less well written (maybe that's a product of my inability to pick good ones, but whatever the reason, that's been my experience). However, when I read that this was a…

A Man Called Ove

This is the second Fredrik Backman novel that I’ve read. The first was My Grandmother Told Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, which was one of my favorite books from last year and is probably still in my top 20 (ish) of all time. But Ove was actually published earlier and was, in fact, Backman’s…

Immer

This is my first post as part of a promotional blog tour. Did you read that? Let me write it again, just in case. This is my first post as part of a promotional blog tour!! That’s right, that means I was sent this book in exchange for an honest review. And I literally cannot…