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Book Reviews (Listed Alphabetically by Title)

The Glass Hotel

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel has been high on my shortlist of books to read for some time now. I loved Station Eleven, and The Glass Hotel loops in one of the minor characters from Station Eleven, Leon Prevant. This book is exists in an alternate reality where the Georgia Flu (the …

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid came out back in 2017, but I decided not to read it after laboring to get through Daisy Jones & the Six, which I didn’t really love. But since then I’ve continually been recommended it so, so many times. And I’ve been on the lookout …

The Night Swim

The Night Swim by Megan Goldin came out earlier this month, and it is part courtroom thriller and part mystery (and part podcast! well, sort of). It’s also a suspenseful and tense story, that happens to be perfect for mystery fans looking for an audiobook to listen to. The Night Swim is a courtroom thriller …

Pachinko

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee has been on my reading list and sitting on my bookself, looking lovely and forlorn, for some time. With the wildfires, lightning storms and heat wave in Northern California, I decided to head to the coast for a spell and found some time to read it while chilling out in …

A Good Marriage

So, I just finished reading A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight and, oh my goodness, is this a convoluted plot or what. I had really high hopes for this book since it seems to have some really solid reviews and even got picked up to be adapted into a movie. Sadly, it was a bit …