The Night Swim by Megan Golding
This was a work book club pick, and I was actually looking forward to it. Unfortunately, I’m adding it to my list of disappointing thrillers. Rachel Krall has a true crime podcast – I’m thinking something along the lines of Serial. For her third season, she wants to cover a case going to trial while … [Read more]
City on Fire by Don Winslow
I kinda knew what to expect with this Don Winslow novel going in and yet, I still wound up having a good time. Winslow is famous for taking historical crime events and melding them into fictional tales. He did it with the history of the West Coast mob in The Winter of Frankie Machine, one of my … [Read more]
The Appeal by Janice Hallett
Poppy, the two-year-old granddaughter of the Haywoods, is diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer, the whole community rallies around them to raise money for her treatment. But not all is as it seems in this little town, and when someone turns up dead on the night of the Fairway Players' dress … [Read more]
Coral Reefs: Cities of the Ocean by Maris Wicks
I will start off with, this is a book about coral reefs, so how did they manage to add at least two fart jokes and a belch? Very ingeniously! Coral Reefs: Cities of the Ocean is the basics of coral reefs. We see how they have inspired human inventions and architecture by the size, shapes, forms, … [Read more]
Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
This is the second book in the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. This book takes place a few generations after the first book, although because of longevity technology in medical science a handful of the original colonizing crew are still alive. The novel looks at Mars now in the beginning … [Read more]
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
I really wanted to love this book. The hype around it (“Get Out” meets “The Stepford Wives”) made me think it would be right up my alley. This is the story of Nella, an editorial assistant at Wagner Books, a prestigious and very white publishing firm in New York. Nella is tired of being the only … [Read more]
