Category: 7

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…

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…

Or were they in this moment unaware, or something more than unaware – were they somehow invulnerable to, untouched by, vulgarity and ugliness, glancing for a moment into something deeper, something concealed beneath the surface of life, not unreality but a hidden reality: the presence at all times, in all places, of a beautiful world?…

All they wanted was a quiet week away: away from the noise and bustle of New York, away from the sticky summer heat locked amongst its buildings, away from the endless work emails. But they got far more than they bargained for when the owners of their rental home return because of a blackout in the city,…

(there are so many covers so I’ve just selected two – I have the one on the right) Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see–because I do not happen to be a “Somebody”–why my diary should not be…

‘Hamnet and Hamlet are in fact the same name, entirely interchangeable in Stratford records in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries’ – Steven Greenblatt Golden hair, wistful daydreams, and a name enduring generations, Hamnet details the life of a boy and his family: his twin Judith, a sister Susanna, his mother Agnes, and his father…

A mother drowning in guilt, a family torn apart by grief, and a stranded car in the wake of a New England hurricane set the stage for Walker’s suspenseful novel. Don’t Look For Me provides the perfect balance of mystery and suspense without being too graphic or terrifying. After a tragic accident tore her family apart, Molly Clarke…

“what is a friend? we would say humorously. What is a conversation?” After 300+ pages with Rooney’s characters, I’m honestly not sure how to answer those questions. How do you evaluate friendship when your perception is biased by your interpretation of communication? Do conversations you have with yourself even count? These are core elements explored through the life of Frances,…

I first came across this title as part of a class assignment and, upon reading the synopsis, thought, “this is a British version of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”. Now that I’ve read the book, I firmly stand behind my initial hypothesis.  Cat, Lissa and Hannah live together in East London, brought into each other’s lives…

“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet. 1977, May 3, six thirty in the morning, no one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late for breakfast.” Do you feel like you committed a crime and read the big reveal? Because that’s how I felt reading those sentences, the first sentences of…