The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams
A body positive romance where our heroine gets to enjoy exercise for the sake of it (rather than to achieve some ideal) AND to be a person outside of her size. We also get to have a hero that has more going for him than being hot and attracted to fat girls. Plot: Britta has been trying to get her … [Read more]
Passing by Nella Larsen
Passing is about pretense, jealousy, psychological ambiguity, concealment, and duplicity. The messiness of being human s portrayed in the relationship between two women, Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield. It is through this narrative that Larsen suggests that both racial and gender/sexual identities … [Read more]
Turn Down the Lights by Edited by Richard Chizmar
I continue my efforts to read through the books that have been sitting on my shelves for years. Turn Down the Lights is a collection of short horror and thriller/suspense/crime stories from the long-running magazine Cemetery Dance. Chizmar started the magazine in college and also runs a small press … [Read more]
The Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole
That's a lie. I know exactly where I should start. Seventh Grade, that's where. It was the 1988-89 school year. I was attending a magnet school in New Orleans that went 7th-12th grade. It looked like a gothic art deco birthday cake surrounded by live oak trees. There was even a Catholic girls school … [Read more]
Under One Roof by Ali Hazelwood
After we read The Love Hypothesis for book club, I found a trio of novellas also by Ali Hazelwood. I quickly decided that I needed to read these as well. So, now that I've finished Below Zero and Stuck With You, I was able to get Under One Roof (2022) by Hazelwood on audiobook. Like Hazelwood's … [Read more]
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
The Dictionary of Lost Words (2020) by Pip Williams was chosen by my book club. I began this book with high expectations. It has 4.4 stars on Amazon, and is a New York Times bestseller. The blurb stated that this book is: "[d]elightful...[a] captivating and slightly subversive fictional paean to the … [Read more]
