Book Review: Catfishing on the Catnet, Naomi Kritzer Young Adult: Catfishing on the Catnet, Naomi Kritzer Steph is used to starting over. Her mother has been on the run from Steph’s abusive father for as long as Steph can remember. She’s been to five high schools…and she’s still just starting her junior year. So […]
Category: Fiction
Fiction: Books to Enjoy & Experience
In this category, Books for Enjoying & Experiencing, you will find fiction in many genres. This section is for readers with eclectic tastes and large to be read piles; you will find books here to talk about with others, perhaps even discover your next book club read, even if your book club is a friend over coffee break or beach read buddy.
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Blog Tour: You Beneath Your Skin, Dimyanti Biswas
Blog Tour: You Beneath Your Skin, Dimyanti Biswas Fiction: You Beneath Your Skin, Dimyanti Biswas You Beneath Your Skin starts out as a family drama. Anjali is the single mother of a troubled autistic teenager, Nikhil. She is living with her friend Maya, and secretly having an affair with Maya’s married brother. Jatin’s marriage […]
Book Review: Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
Book Review: Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo Fantasy: Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo Galaxy Stern grew up in a single parent household in LA. A troubled teen, she became involved with drugs and gangs until she ended up in the hospital. Police had found her unconscious in an apartment full of dead gangsters, lying beside a dead […]
Book Review: Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo
Book Review: Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo Fiction: Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo Winner, 2019 Booker Prize Girl, Woman, Other is a powerful novel by an accomplished writer. Co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize, Bernardine Evaristo tells the stories of a number of women of varying ages and time periods, connected in a sort […]
Book Review: Haywire, Thaddeus Rutkowski
Book Review: Haywire, Thaddeus Rutkowski Fiction: Haywire, Thaddeus Rutkowski I read an interview with author Thaddeus Rutkowski in which he described his work as “autobiographical fiction.” He also mentions the term “autofiction” in that same interview. His novel Haywire, originally published in 2011 and rereleased in 2019, strides the line between autobiography and fiction. […]
Book Review: Steel Crow Saga, Paul Krueger
Book Review: Steel Crow Saga, Paul Krueger Fantasy: Steel Crow Saga, Paul Krueger Steel Crow Saga has been described as Pokemon meets Last Airbender. I doubt I could come up with any description close to matching that. It is a wild fantasy ride through an Asia that shares certain cultural aspects with the continent […]
Book Review: Jade War, Fonda Lee
Book Review: Con Me Once, JL Delozier
Book Review: Con Me Once, JL Delozier Mystery/Thriller: Con Me Once, JL Delozier Con Me Once is available for preorder now and pubs 2/5/2020. After writing a trilogy of books about doctor and FBI consultant Persephone “Seph” Smith, thriller writer and medical doctor JL Delozier has turned her talents to a different type of novel. Con Me […]
Book Review: Killer Instinct, James Patterson and Howard Roughan
Book Review: Killer Instinct, James Patterson and Howard Roughan Thriller: Killer Instinct, James Patterson and Howard Roughan Dr. Dylan Reinhart is a professor at Yale. Detective Elizabeth Needham is with the NYPD. Together, they are a criminal’s worst nightmare. I’ll admit that I came to this book after seeing the TV show based […]
Book Review: The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline
Book Review: The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline Fiction: The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline The world lies in broken chaos. Global warming has destroyed the climate, redrawn coastlines, erased borders between nations and sent refugees fleeing everywhere. In The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, these are not even the worst problems her characters face. […]