by Michelle | Sep 1, 2021 | A Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2021, C Author, E Author, H Author, Novel Nuggets, Review Copy, W Author
When you have twenty-nine books to review, you cry uncle and resort to short reviews. Plus, after all this time, I’m not certain I remember enough about any of them to write a full-length review. We will be breaking these into five parts. This is part six. There...
by Michelle | Apr 14, 2021 | Book Review, Books Read in 2021, M Author, Review Copy
I fell in love with Clare Mackintosh through her strong thrillers. Her sleight-of-hand twists never cease to amaze me. Except, After the End is not one of her thrillers. Instead, it is a deeply personal and heartrending story of parents forced to make an unthinkable...
by Michelle | Oct 20, 2020 | Audiobook, Book Review, Books Read in 2020, E Author
I believe Mr. Ellison’s purpose in writing Invisible Man was simply education. Sadly, his first-person account of all the ways Black people face oppression is not as shocking as it could be because it simply reiterates that there is nothing simple or easy about...
by Michelle | Jul 28, 2020 | Book Review, Books Read in 2020, Review Copy, W Author
Mother Daughter Widow Wife by Robin Wasserman has a fantastic premise. Given how much I loved her previous book, I opened it with eagerness. Expecting a story that focused on the woman who could not remember her past, what I got was a story about exactly what the...
by Michelle | Jun 17, 2020 | B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2020, Review Copy
I was looking through my printed advance proof of This Little Family by Inès Bayard for a trigger warning because if ever a book needs one, this is it. Any book about rape is going to be tough and potentially triggering, but Ms. Bayard’s description of the scene...
