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Book Lovers

Book Lovers is Emily Henry’s newest bookish summer beach read, and it delivers on everything it promises to be. Summery, romantic, fun, and with endearingly bookish characters — there’s a lot to like about Henry’s latest release. Our protagonist, Nora, describes herself as the type of woman that decidedly does not get the guy in …

Black Cake

So, I started Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson when it first came out and got distracted by other things. The past two weeks or so, I’ve been waylaid in bed after some complicated oral surgery, so now that I’m on the mend, I thought I would finish it up. This means, however, that I am …

The Paris Apartment

The Paris Apartment is the latest release from mystery-thriller author Lucy Foley. I’d previously read her book The Guest List which was imperfect, but promising enough that I’d been looking forward to her next release. Unfortunately — there’s no point in sugarcoating this — this book is pretty underwhelming and not particularly fun to read. …

The Christie Affair

The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont was high on my list of books to read as soon as I heard about it. As a die-hard Agatha Christie fan, I have always found the story about her 11-day disappearance to be a curious one, and the idea of a book based on it sounded very …

The Man Who Died Twice

The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club #2), released in September 2021, is the second novel in Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club cozy mystery series. The series follows a group of retirees as they come across murder and mayhem. The first novel was a pretty big hit in the UK, and I really …