This book is pretty adorable. If you liked The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, 84 Charing Cross Road, or The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, you’ll love The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend. It’s a book about books. I might even say it’s a book about books about books. Sara, a Swedish bookseller, becomes friends and pen pals with an elderly woman, Amy, living in Iowa. They eventually decide to meet and Sara gets her tourist visa and hops on over to the United […]
Luckily I gave in to peer pressure
3.5 stars. After seeing all the positive reviews on CBR for this little romance book, I had to check it out to see what all the fuss was about. Turns out you all have great taste (this wasn’t a surprise). I hadn’t read much contemporary romance until this past year, but this is a good addition to my ever-growing shelf of fun, modern romance. Act Like It centers around Lainie Graham and Richard Troy. Lainie is a stage actress on the rise performing in the […]
An American in Paris
I have no idea where I heard about this book and I didn’t really know what it was about when I went into it, so I was surprised that I ended up loving it as much as I did. It was a quiet kind of book, the kind that just tugs you along until you’re in so deep that you don’t know what hit you. Grace lives in Paris working as an under-the-table employee at a somewhat shady restoration shop. She’s an American and she’s […]
Shine on you crazy diamond
I don’t usually read books this dark with so much violence. Not that I’m against it, it’s just not my thing. Still, I ended up enjoying The Shining Girls. Lauren Beukes is certainly a talented writer and she did a great job in writing a complicated story that was still cohesive and made sense. The Shining Girls is a bit of a genre mashup. It’s a time travel tale, but it also is very much thriller/horror too. Although there are lots of characters, the story […]