There are three perspectives in this book: a cleaning woman, a down-on-his-luck millennial, and an octopus. If that doesn’t at least pique your interest, I don’t know what will. This is a story of how all of their lives intersect in a sweet story of growth, family, and friendship. Tova likes her routines, and she…
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We All Live Here
Before we get into this, I think it’s important that you know I am a big Jojo Moyes fan. That woman has not written anything I don’t like (yet). Reading a Moyes novel for me is less about being blown away by profound literary prowess and more about how she makes me feel, which is…
The Wedding People
My 2% readers, I feel we’ve reached a milestone together as I’m able to say that I’ve read a bandwagon bestseller at the time it’s still relevant rather than waiting my requisite two years before touching it. I went in expecting (and ready for) the standard chick-lit tropes I had come to expect from any…
The Lincoln Highway
The 2% Readers’ “Pick for Review” from 2024 was none other than The Lincoln Highway, an endearing tale about two brothers’ quest for a new start after the passing of their father. The book comes in at 576 pages, and it is a hefty yet worthwhile narrative. Emmett returns home to the family farm after…
A Court of Thorns and Roses series
Apologies for the delay, I know it’s been a bit quiet on reviews recently but I’ll go ahead and blame that on the series you see above. Disclaimer: there is one more book in the ACOTAR series (The Court of Silver Flames) which I haven’t read, so this will only be covering the first four….
Come Fly the World
The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am While flight attendants still hold a vaguely glamorous role in the back of my mind, I primarily see them through the lens of safety instructions given before flights and pushing the drinks cart up and down the aisle. Unfair? Certainly. Accurate? Maybe nowadays, but certainly not…
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
As much as I love words, I’ve never given much thought to their origins or their standardization, and I’ve never considered a time before a dictionary, before a comprehensive “rule book” of words. The Meaning of Everything is a story of just that: a story of the world before, and during the creation of, the…
Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases
In this memoir, Paul Holes details the nitty-gritty reality of solving cases, specifically those that have gone cold. With his hunt for the Golden State Killer taking center-stage, Holes takes the reader through his career solving various cases and the impact it had on his professional and personal life. I find crime-documentaries gripping and fascinating,…
The Christie Affair
For any long-time blog readers, you’ll know that I discovered the joys of Agatha Christie while writing these reviews, so imagine my intrigue when I realized one of Reese Witherspoon’s book club picks was The Christie Affair, a fictitious reimagining of her temporary disappearance in 1926. When I started reading the novel, I didn’t intend…
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…