Fiction, Nonfiction, and Other Book Reviews
Lately, I’ve become very tired of reading about abuse whether it be abandonment or dismemberment or any trauma in between. Is there a well-written angst-free novel out there? Yes! I found...
Set on a fictional Welsh island in 1938, Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor introduces its reader to eighteen-year-old Manod Llan, a lifelong islander, who feels a deep attachment to her small...
“The Welsh writer Carys Davies has, over the course of three impeccably elegant novels to date, revealed herself as a model of restraint. Each book has been short and concise, with...
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...
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...
What do you do when your debut novel is a masterpiece? In Meng Jin’s case, I have no doubt, she’ll produce another and another. It is rare that an author creates...
In 2002, Australian foreign correspondent Gina Wilkinson was living and working in Bangkok when her Canadian husband was offered a posting in Baghdad working for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)....
A Charlotte Mecklenburg Adult Services Librarian facilitates the book club at the West Boulevard branch of which I‘m a proud member. We don’t take ourselves too seriously; we share lots of...
In 2018, Emma Donoghue, author of Room and Wonder, among other novels, began The Pull of the Stars inspired by the one-hundred-year anniversary of the Spanish Flu pandemic which killed millions...
Enter Jai, a Hindu school-boy, who at nine-years-old loves to watch “Police Patrol” and “Live Crime” on television and seizes an opportunity to play detective himself when children begin disappearing from...
