Fiction, Nonfiction, and Other Book Reviews
The game’s afoot on Hilton Head Island. Olivia and Julia, owners of Little Bites, a lunchroom and bakery in Wake Forest, North Carolina are attending a conference on the South Carolina...
The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman’s funny, clever, and compelling debut novel, is about four individuals who reside in the upscale Coopers Chase Retirement Village somewhere in the UK. They get...
Each of us seeks moments of amazement and joy in our lives. Each of us finds them in different ways. My mother used to lift her face to the sun, or...
Days after finishing One Two Three, I am still holding it close to my heart! Everything works in this novel – every character, every word, every lie, every truth. This is...
Before I began attending The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library System’s Social Justice Book Clubs and Learning Circles devoted to teaching and discussing Black History, I had never heard of Octavia E. Butler....
Madison Cowles Serna earned her Master of Fine Arts in Art Studio from the University of Kentucky and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at San Antonio....
When I was a kid, I drove my mother nuts. I began each day with questions I believed critical to life and limb and needed to be answered immediately. I continued...
This novel is brilliant. One of the many perfect decisions the author makes is to write in the voice of Adunni, a fourteen-year-old girl living in the current-day, small rural Nigerian...
When I was teaching third grade, my students would celebrate their writing every few months with a Publishing Party for anyone who wanted to listen to them read their masterpieces. On...
I will begin by saying that some reviews have not been especially kind to The Girl Who Reads on the Métro, but I loved it. Originally written in French [La Fille...
