Grandpa’s Window by Laura Ghel
OMG! Have a pack of tissues with you! I bawled my eyes out (well, I could have as I read this, though available, online reader copy)! This is one of the saddest, yet most beautiful stories of the loss of a beloved grandparent/grandfather, I think I have ever read. At first, I did not think I would like Grandpa’s Window as it gave me a start (how in the world would Grandpa have a window in the hospital that overlooked the ocean when all the […]
Giantess: The Story of the Girl Who Traveled the World in Search of Freedom by JC Deveney
I saw the online reader copy for Giantess: The Story of the Girl Who Traveled the World in Search of Freedom ages ago. And didn’t get to it because I had others I wanted to read first, plus I lost the link for a while, but then a new one appeared in Edelweiss. The cover seemed to make this Jean-Christophe Deveney/JC Deveney graphic novel have a particular theme, but went a slightly different way. I assumed we would find an outcast who would find how […]
Shucked by Kate Canterbary
4.5 stars Sunny DuJardin is just about to open a vegan cafe in her hometown of Friendship, Rhode Island, but keeps butting heads with the man who tormented her in much of her adolescence and early teenage years. Beckett Loew has had to take a leave of absence from his high-powered business job in Singapore to return to Friendship to try to figure out the total mess his flakey parents have made with the family’s oyster restaurant. His father and many of the senior management […]
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by BROM
Connecticut, 1666. An ancient spirit is awoken in the darkness of the wood, fed by blood and the prayers of the wild spirits name him Father and Slayer. They lure a clumsy farmer into a cave to feed him to the spirit, making young Abitha a widow. Abitha already doesn’t fit into the Puritan community with her outspoken ways and questioning of the rules. Having grown up in London, Abitha was sold by her drunken father and married off to a stranger, who thankfully turns […]
Digging Stars by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Blue Hour by Tiffany Clarke Harrison
Disney has an obsession with killing mothers, while it seems authors of literary fiction have a tendency to kill the narrator’s father. Maybe this is just my experience, because I’m especially sensitive to that plot line this year as I mourn my dad. It feels as though I have been surprised by several novels this year that include daughters grieving their fathers. Some have felt so close and personal, I couldn’t even begin to review them (I definitely should NOT have read Maame this summer). […]
Breaking Twitter by Ben Mezrich
Of course I reached for the brand new Elon Musk takedown the moment it hit shelves. Breaking Twitter is an expose of Elon Musk’s doomed takeover of the social media site, told in a narrative style either with direct insider information from people who were present for the takeover, or with direct observation of Elon in order to frame bits from his perspective. First off, if you’ve been following the Twitter takeover closely, there isn’t a ton of new information here. Most of the latest […]
