Hi there. Let’s talk books!
I am an inveterate and incorrigible bookworm, and a longtime book reviewer for Shelf Awareness. I read a lot, I read widely (and deeply), and I love talking about what I read.
I post semi-monthly reading roundups on the blog, which are linked below as they appear. You can also find me on Goodreads.
December, part 2
Keep Moving, Maggie Smith
A Winter Kiss on Rochester Mews, Annie Darling
The List of Things That Will Not Change, Rebecca Stead
Winter Solstice, Rosamunde Pilcher
A Deception at Thornecrest, Ashley Weaver
A Promised Land, Barack Obama
Footnotes, Caseen Gaines
The Hiding Place, Paula Munier
December, part 1
Why We Swim, Bonnie Tsui
Mimi Lee Gets a Clue, Jennifer J. Chow
Killer Content, Olivia Blacke
The Soul of a Woman, Isabel Allende
The Next Great Jane, K.L. Going
Hardball, Sara Paretsky
Shepherds Abiding, Jan Karon
November, part 2
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
Dear Miss Kopp, Amy Stewart
Wonder Woman: Love and Murder, Jodi Picoult et al.
Watch Us Rise, Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
Ana María Reyes Does Not Live in a Castle, Hilda Eunice Burgos
The Library of Lost Things, Laura Taylor Namey
Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto
Come Fly the World, Julia Cooke
Recommended for You, Laura Silverman
Earth’s Wild Music, Kathleen Dean Moore
November, part 1
Julieta and the Diamond Enigma, Luisana Duarte Armendariz
This is My Brain in Love, I.W. Gregorio
The Last Garden in England, Julia Kelly
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Holly Jackson
Some Places More Than Others, Renée Watson
Birds by the Shore, Jennifer Ackerman
Finding Refuge, Michelle Cassandra Johnson
Fire Sale, Sara Paretsky
October, part 2
Heather and Homicide, Molly MacRae
The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
The Chanel Sisters, Judithe Little
Stella by Starlight, Sharon M. Draper
Blacklist, Sara Paretsky
Eat Joy, ed. Natalie Eve Garrett
The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd
Our Darkest Night, Jennifer Robson
Love Is All Around, Paula Bernstein
October, part 1
Total Recall, Sara Paretsky
The Secrets of Bones, Kylie Logan
The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found, Karina Yan Glaser
Home Work, Julie Andrews
Poppy Redfern and the Fatal Flyers, Tessa Arlen
West Wind, Mary Oliver
How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
The Last Mrs. Summers, Rhys Bowen
The Precious One, Marisa de los Santos
September, part 2
Hard Time, Sara Paretsky
Good Harbor, Anita Diamant
Echo Mountain, Lauren Wolk
A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver
Running, Natalia Sylvester
A Royal Affair, Allison Montclair
The Heir Affair, Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
The Sea Gate, Jane Johnson
Big Dreams, Daily Joys, Elise Blaha Cripe
Thinking Inside the Box, Adrienne Raphel
September, part 1
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World, Laura Imai Messina
Windy City Blues, Sara Paretsky
Her Last Flight, Beatriz Williams
Ways to Make Sunshine, Renée Watson
The Arctic Fury, Greer Macallister
The Switch, Beth O’Leary
Evidence, Mary Oliver
One Long River of Song, Brian Doyle
In Praise of Retreat, Kirsteen Macleod
By the Book, Amanda Sellet
August, part 2
The Lions of Fifth Avenue, Fiona Davis
Riviera Gold, Laurie R. King
The Book Collectors, Delphine Minoui
Mornings with Rosemary, Libby Page
An Irish Country Welcome, Patrick Taylor
Clap When You Land, Elizabeth Acevedo
500 Miles from You, Jenny Colgan
Steering the Craft, Ursula K. LeGuin
Tunnel Vision, Sara Paretsky
August, part 1
Carney’s House Party, Maud Hart Lovelace
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know, Samira Ahmed
Lumberjanes, Vol. 2: Friendship to the Max, Noelle Stevenson et al.
Be Holding, Ross Gay
The Lost Love Song, Minnie Darke
Burn Marks, Sara Paretsky
Front Desk, Kelly Yang
Killing Orders, Sara Paretsky
Thirst, Mary Oliver
Guardian Angel, Sara Paretsky
July, part 3
Other Words for Home, Jasmine Warga
The Feminist Agenda of Jemima Kincaid, Kate Hattemer
Flying Free, Cecilia Aragon
Shalom Sistas, Osheta Moore
Emily of Deep Valley, Maud Hart Lovelace
Mend!, Kate Sekules
Deadlock, Sara Paretsky
House of Light, Mary Oliver
Amal Unbound, Aisha Saeed
Bitter Medicine, Sara Paretsky
Wild Words, Nicole Gulotta
Ms. Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal, G. Willow Wilson
Blood Shot, Sara Paretsky
July, part 2
From the Desk of Zoe Washington, Janae Marks
Dead Land, Sara Paretsky
Infused, Henrietta Lovell
She Come By It Natural, Sarah Smarsh
Not Like the Movies, Kerry Winfrey
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Indemnity Only, Sara Paretsky
July, part 1
Burnout, Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
The Women and the Men, Nikki Giovanni
Good Talk, Mira Jacob
Right of Way, Angie Schmitt
The Road to Memphis, Mildred D. Taylor
Float Plan, Trish Doller
All the Days Past, All the Days to Come, Mildred D. Taylor
Yes No Maybe So, Becky Albertalli & Aisha Saeed
Native, Kaitlin B. Curtice
Watson & Holmes: A Study in Black, Karl Bollers et al.
The Fountains of Silence, Ruta Sepetys
June, part 2
I’m Fine and Neither are You, Camille Pagán
Two Truths and a Lie, Meg Mitchell Moore
The Penderwicks, Jeanne Birdsall
The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo
Blanche Among the Talented Tenth, Barbara Neely
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, Jeanne Birdsall
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine, Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite
Atomic Love, Jennie Fields
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor
White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
The Penderwicks at Point Mouette, Jeanne Birdsall
Why I Wake Early, Mary Oliver
Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Mildred D. Taylor
The Penderwicks in Spring, Jeanne Birdsall
The Penderwicks at Last, Jeanne Birdsall
A Fine Romance, Susan Branch
June, part 1
The Last Stargazers, Emily Levesque
Song of the Trees, Mildred D. Taylor
Black History in Its Own Words, Ronald Wimberly
The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living, Louise Miller
The Nesting Dolls, Alina Adams
I Think You’re Wrong (But I’m Listening), Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers
The Scent of Murder, Kylie Logan
Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy, Noelle Stevenson et al.
Silver Sparrow, Tayari Jones
The Late Bloomers’ Club, Louise Miller
Keep It Moving, Twyla Tharp
Spiderweb for Two, Elizabeth Enright
May, part 2
Everything is Spiritual, Rob Bell
The Saturdays, Elizabeth Enright
The Four-Story Mistake, Elizabeth Enright
The War Widow, Tara Moss
Jane of Lantern Hill, L.M. Montgomery
Words in Deep Blue, Cath Crowley
The Wedding Party, Jasmine Guillory
Stranger God, Richard Beck
Big Friendship, Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman
Then There Were Five, Elizabeth Enright
The Land, Mildred D. Taylor
Brazen, Pénélope Bagieu
May, part 1
Once Upon a Sunset, Tif Marcelo
House Lessons, Erica Bauermeister
Last Bus to Wisdom, Ivan Doig
Two in the Far North, Margaret E. Murie
The Key Lime Crime, Lucy Burdette
April, part 2
The Whistling Season, Ivan Doig
Inbound 4: A Comic History of Boston, Boston Comics Roundtable
I Was Told It Would Get Easier, Abbi Waxman
Use the Power You Have, Pramila Jayapal
This Won’t End Well, Camille Pagán
Rilla of Ingleside, L.M. Montgomery
Making Space, Thich Nhat Hanh
April, part 1
Keep Moving, Maggie Smith
Braver Than You Think, Maggie Downs
American Royals, Katharine McGee
The Paris Hours, Alex George
Waterlight, Kathleen Jamie
Of Mutts and Men, Spencer Quinn
Last Train to Key West, Chanel Cleeton
March, part 2
I’ll Be Your Blue Sky, Marisa de los Santos
Every Reason We Shouldn’t, Sara Fujimura
Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels, Hannah Ross
Life and Other Near-Death Experiences, Camille Pagán
The Joys of Baking, Samantha Seneviratne
The Downstairs Girl, Stacey Lee
I’d Give Anything, Marisa de los Santos
The Story of More, Hope Jahren
A Mixture of Mischief, Anna Meriano
March, part 1
Chasing Utopia, Nikki Giovanni
The Garden of Small Beginnings, Abbi Waxman
Don’t Overthink It, Anne Bogel
The Women in Black, Madeleine St. John
For Small Creatures Such as We, Sasha Sagan
Good Bones, Maggie Smith
Tweet Cute, Emma Lord
February, part 2
The Yellow House, Sarah M. Broom
Hid From Our Eyes, Julia Spencer-Fleming
The Sweeney Sisters, Lian Dolan
Five Days, Wes Moore with Erica L. Green
Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders, Tessa Arlen
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
The Authenticity Project, Clare Pooley
Cooking Solo, Klancy Miller
The Long Run, Catriona Menzies-Pike
February, part 1
Jewel of the Thames, Angela Misri
Simon the Fiddler, Paulette Jiles
The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl, Theodora Goss
Six Square Metres, Margaret Simons
To Night Owl from Dogfish, Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer
More to the Story, Hena Khan
Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
January, part 2
The Henna Artist, Alka Joshi
Code Name Hélène, Ariel Lawhon
Well-Read Black Girl, ed. Glory Edim
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
Agatha Oddly: Murder at the Museum, Lena Jones
Running: A Love Story, Jen A. Miller
Option B, Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
January, part 1
Hannah’s War, Jan Eliasberg
Time After Time, Lisa Grunwald
Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
The Case of the Wandering Scholar, Kate Saunders
