If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler is a post-modern novel that becomes obsessed with its own meta-ness. The structure is odd where it is like 10 stories contained in one book, each written in a different genre. It totally sounded like something that would be up my alley,...
Beartown
Have you ever cried while reading a book in public? This almost happened to me while reading Beartown. I should have known better. At a certain point while reading another book by Fredrik Backman (My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry), I started crying and didn’t stop until...
The Dog Stars
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller Pages: 320 Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Published: August 7, 2012 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s Funny how you can live a whole life waiting and not know it. Waiting for your real life to begin. Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize that when it’s too late. 3.5/5...
Truly Madly Guilty
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty Pages: 415 Genre: Contemporary Published: July 26, 2016 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s There is no special protection when you cross that invisible line from your ordinary life to that parallel world where tragedies happen. It happens just like this. You don’t become someone else. You’re still...
Ink and Bone
Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger Pages: 342 Genre: Supernatural Mystery Published: June 7, 2016 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s Fear holds on. Love lets go. 4/5 stars A young woman who has been plagued with prophetic dreams all her life decides she needs to visit her renowned psychic grandmother in update...
The Last One
The Last One by Alexandra Oliva Pages: 290 Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Published: July 12, 2016 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s The brain is a terrifying and wondrous organ, and all it wants is to survive. 3/5 stars I really liked The Last One, but I didn’t love it. I read it pretty quickly,...
A Northern Light
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly Pages: 396 Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction Published: September 1, 2004 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn’t have written even one poem if she’d had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house...
Black-Eyed Susans
Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin Pages: 352 Genre: Psychological Thriller Published: August 11, 2015 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s 3/5 stars I loved so much of Black-Eyed Susans since it did a fantastic job being told from the point of view of Tessa who is a survivor of a horrific serial killer attack. Then,...
Wool
Wool by Hugh Howey Pages: 550 Genre: Dystopian Published: January 25, 2012 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s Juliette wondered if she would start talking to objects now. Start going crazy. As the darkness absorbed her, she realized her mind-set was changing by the minute. Resigned to her death the day before, now she was...
Pretty Girls
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter Pages: 396 Genre: Thriller Published: September 29, 2015 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were qualities that painted young men as smart and...