Category Archives: Book Reviews

In the Night Garden by Carin Berger

Posted on April 18, 2023 by Sarah Willis

I simply love In the Night Garden by Carin Berger. I am someone who has wandered outside in the starlight, or listened to the night sounds through an open window, and the story and images bring those moments back to … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Where You See Yourself by Claire Forrest

Posted on November 13, 2022 by Julie

Where You See Yourself is an upcoming YA book that is so amazing that I read the whole thing in a day (very rare for me). It has a lot in common with other teen books: girl crushes on boy, … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate

Posted on September 21, 2022 by Julie

This book is, quite simply, encompassing and amazing. I can’t think of any topic remotely related to health that did not make it into this book. I have loved all of Mate’s books so far, and this one I am … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee

Posted on September 20, 2022 by Julie

Pomegranate is the story of a woman’s journey once she is released from prison, which is affected by her Blackness and her Queerness. Ranita, a former addict, tries to work recovery principles in her life while moving on from her … Continue reading →

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Botticelli’s Secret

Posted on September 15, 2022 by Elijah

Less artistic analysis, more the colorful history of a provenance, “Botticelli’s Secret” offers short, vivid biographies of Dante and Botticelli before embarking on a tour of the turbulent fate of the latter’s Divine Comedy sketches, a tour which also functions … Continue reading →

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Book Review: What’s Coming to Me

Posted on April 29, 2022 by Julie

Summer will be here soon enough (even if it was below freezing last night), so I have been reading some books that are coming out this summer. What’s Coming to Me is my favorite so far. This is a YA … Continue reading →

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The Ghosts of Rose Hill by R.M. Romero

Posted on March 18, 2022 by Miranda Richmond

The Ghosts of Rose Hill is so beautifully written I had a physical reaction to the words as I absorbed them. As I read this book, I carried it with me everywhere just to be near it. Romero writes so … Continue reading →

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Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Sarah Willis

Great fiction is one of the ways I learn history, so Booth by Karen Joy Fowler is a wonderful treat. John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln, but that’s not the center of this book. The center is his family, and … Continue reading →

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Book Review – A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention by Rebecca Schiller

Posted on February 27, 2022 by Julie

In this engaging memoir, Rebecca traces her juggling of many troublesome symptoms with the intricacies of setting up a small homestead, while bringing in an expansive knowledge of the history of the land she lives on.  After issues with misdiagnoses … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Soberful by Veronica Valli

Posted on January 30, 2022 by Julie

I hope that everybody is having a nice, healthy new year so far. I would like to sing the praises of a book that just came out – Soberful, by Veronica Valli. When I read this book, I was not … Continue reading →

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