Pucking Around by Emily Rath
This book has been big in the zeitgeist, and I wasn’t sure if I’d ever pick it up because it is so…freaking…long. But I was looking for a new audiobook on Libby and there it was, available for my listening pleasure, and I gotta tell you: 25 hours never went by so fast. (Okay, that’s in part because I listened to it first in 1.75 and then in 2.0 when that was still too slow, so it was more like 13 or 14 hours.) The […]
The Keeper of Hidden Books by Madeline Martin
The Bookbinder by Pip Williams
As my semester ended and the break began, I indulged in my usual ritual of checking out lots of books to binge over the holidays. I hit up both my community college library (which has a stellar YA collection) and my local library. At the library, I ended up grabbing two novels from the New Reads bookshelf that on the surface had a lot in common but ultimately were very different reads. The Keeper of Hidden Books by Madeline Martin is set during World War […]
The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish
London fortysomethings Jamie and Clare lead a happy life, at least on the surface; they’re financially stable, Clare has a good job, they live in an expensive house in a prosperous area in London and they’re enjoying life the way wealthy people with no children do. But all is not well; Jamie is stuck in a dead-end job and Clare is getting increasingly fed up with him. When they meet young, dazzling couple Kit and Melia, they seize the opportunity to become friends, but all […]
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
In 2022 London, Rachel Murray is a pregnant journalist mostly assigned to stories concerning her native Ireland. On a night out with fellow ex-pats, a chance remark causes her to reflect back on her time as an undergraduate student living in Cork, when she’d studied English, worked in a bookshop, lived with closeted male best friend and nurtured a crush on her favorite professor. So far, so routine. Even within the novel Rachel discusses living out a cliched existence as Bookshop girl. But I’ll give author […]
How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain by Jessica McCabe
Throughout my journey towards an ADHD diagnosis, McCabe’s How to ADHD YouTube channel was something I fell back on quite often. She wasn’t an expert herself, but she did the research and condensed the experts in an easily digestible fashion. Needless to say, when she announced she had a book coming out compiling everything she’d learned, plus contributions from her “Brains” as she calls her fans, as well as bits about her life all rolled into one, I knew I was gonna have to get […]
Begin Again by Oliver Jeffers
As I do most every trip to Target, I swung through the books, including the children’s books (hope to be a dad someday soon and wanna have books ready to go) and stumbled across this one. The cover caught me just out of the corner of my eye as I was passing by, so I read a couple pages and bought it based on that sampling. What I didn’t realize was that Target had sort of miscategorized the book; Jeffers had intended this not so […]
