Daniel lives in Athens, Georgia. He works as a social media manager for a regional airline, mainly dealing with irate football fans on game weekends. He has a loving mother who gives him his space and a best friend who comes over daily. He’s also in a wheelchair. Daniel has a good routine going, a routine that…
Category: Book Reviews
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
MI6, counterintelligence during the Cold War, and double agents – all wrapped up in the unbelievable account of Kim Philby’s career. Through his friends– fellow MI6 agent Nicholas Elliot and head of CIA counterintelligence James Jesus Angleton – Philby was able to derail an unbelievable amount of Anglo-American spy operations. Carried through department inquiries and moments of…
Scabby Queen
Clio Campbell is a force to be reckoned with. Her curly red hair makes a visual impact on her audience and her lilting voice, while beautiful in a song, carries indignant vitriol when campaigning for the causes she cares about. And then, days before her 51st birthday, it all stops. Scabby Queen unpacks the story of Clio’s…
Motherwell
Motherwell, for readers not in Scotland, is a town outside of Glasgow that was structured around the steel and iron industry until the late-80s/90s when strikes and the closure of Ravenscraig Steelworks caused massive unemployment. The late Deborah Orr’s memoir is a reflective account of the ways the town shaped her parents’ lives and, in…
The Diamond Eye
Before we dive into this, I want to say how much I enjoyed Kate Quinn’s other book, The Rose Code, and it’s because of how much I loved it that I sought out her other work and stumbled upon The Diamond Eye. Now to the review. Mila Pavlinchenko is a young mother and a history…
This Time Tomorrow
Happy endings were too much for some people, false and cheap,but hope – hope was honest. Hope was good. If you’re like me, you don’t look at the images above and think “time travel”, but you know what they say about judging a book by its cover… Alice is turning 40 and dealing with all…
Verity
For those of you thinking the name Colleen Hoover rings a bell, she’s the author of the bestselling book, It Ends With Us, which I would file under “romance”, “chick lit” etc. I promise I’m not trying to be too cool for school when I say I didn’t understand the hype and felt the book was…
Sorrow and Bliss
It is hard to look into someone’s eyes. Even when you love them, it is difficult to sustain it,for the sense of being seen through. In some way, found out. It’s not often that I read a library book and enjoy it enough that I want my own copy, but I’m surprised and delighted to…
Anatomy: a love story
If there was ever a doubt about the efficacy of promotional book clubs, let this be a testament that they work. I saw a blurb for Anatomy a couple months back when it was picked for Reese Witherspoon’s book club, and I was immediately intrigued. It’s 1871 and Edinburgh is gripped with fears of another…
The No-Show
A few years ago, I read this endearing, captivating novel called The Flatshare, which I absolutely devoured in the way “easy reading” books allow. When I saw its author, Beth O’Leary, had a new book out, I immediately added it to my list. It’s Valentine’s Day and three women all get stood up. While to some…