Your House Will Pay

This is another one of the “grab everything you’ve had your eye on and can find” library books that I managed to bring home before it closed due to coronavirus. In fact, this is the second time I had checked the particular one out from the library, but I just couldn’t get to it before…

Where the Crawdads Sing

Well, I finally did it. I read this book. I have been so hesitant because the hype for this one is legitimately beyond real and I just figured there’s no way it stands up. Plus, I can’t lie, without the hype, it’s not one that I would for sure pick up just after reading the…

The Confessions of Frannie Langton

As I was looking for a book that would fit The Reading Women Challenge 2020 prompt #1, an author from Caribbean or India, I remembered this novel that a few of the Caribbean-based bookstagrammers I follow (particularly Cindy at @bookofcinz) had talked about last year when it came out. It sounded pretty interesting and really…

Disappearing Earth

This National Book Award Finalist is one that’s been on my TBR since I read the synopsis…and, honestly, since I realized that I was well on my way to reading all the NBA finalists for 2019. That’s not usually a goal that I have, but since I’m close to it, I kind of want to…

American Spy

I am not sure how it ended this book ended up on my TBR, as (to be honest) thrillers aren’t really a genre I read a lot of. However it got there, I was even more inclined to pick it up after seeing that Obama had put it on his list of favorite 2019 reads.…

Miracle Creek

This is the most recent book to take over the #bookstagram. All the hype. It’s not my typical genre/read…courtroom thrillers. But everyone is hype-ing it up and I’m a sucker for “seeing what everyone is talking about.” And it seemed like a good page turner for the summer, so I added myself to the library…

Soulless

I have really got to start writing down the #bookstagrammers behind the recs. I have read so many books that I’ve only found through random posts and greats suggestions from fellow bookworms on Instagram and I never remember who to thank! Regardless, this is one of those. And I’m sending a thank you to the…

The Night Tiger

Years ago, like back before I started publishing my reviews on a blog (in 2014), I read Choo’s first novel, The Ghost Bride. I left a short review on Goodreads when finishing (you can check it out here). It was generally positive and I feel like past me would not be surprised that current me…

Rebecca

I have never read anything by Daphne du Maurier before, though this book (and others of hers) are considered classics and she is known as one of the greatest shapers of popular culture and modern imagination (or at least, that’s what “back of the book” blurbs say about her). But seriously, I knew her work…

Once Upon a River

Years ago, long before I started writing reviews and even longer before I started officially publishing them on my blog, I read The Thirteenth Tale. And I loved it. I actually don’t remember too many of the details, but the mystery and atmosphere have stuck with me to this day. So, as I was browsing…