Precious You
Precious You starts out with a bang as a Gen X’er tries to run over the Millennial upstart who has ruined her life. Katherine is a Gen X editor at a management magazine when a young female named Lily asks for a ride in her cab to work. By anContinue Reading
Girl Can’t Help It
Girl Can’t Help It brings together an aging rock band for a reunion and a place in the Iowa Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Unfortunately, it also brings a murderer to the party. I had no idea that there was any rock and roll history in Iowa. So thatContinue Reading
Oona Out of Order
In Oona Out of Order, Oona lives “her life like an M.C. Escher drawing, years like staircases turning in on themselves to form a tangible but implausible whole.” Beginning on her nineteenth birthday New Year’s Day in 1982, Oona jumps forward or backwards on her own life’s timeline. For exampleContinue Reading
Death on the Page
It’s the end of the tourist season in Death on the Page. Shelby and her Aunt Trudy own two bookstores in upstate New York. One of the bookstores is located in historic Blye Castle. The Castle doesn’t usually allow overnight guests but made an exception for famous author, Savannah Page,Continue Reading
Velvet Rope Economy
The bad news is that there is a hidden (and not so hidden) Velvet Rope Economy in the United States right now. The author explains that the rich top one-percenters are different. They essentially coast down an EZPass paid express lane through life’s difficulties. Meanwhile, the losers below them struggleContinue Reading
Please See Us
Told from multiple points-of-view (including the victims after their death), Please See Us tells a tale of a desolate and dissolute Atlantic City and the people who are trying to survive there. Clara is a boardwalk psychic working with her absent mother’s best friend Des on scamming the tourists fiveContinue Reading
The Twin
The Twin is a new young adult domestic thriller. Sixteen-year-old Ivy and Iris are twins. After their parents’ divorce, Iris moved in with her mother and Ivy stayed put with her father. When their mother dies in a freak accident, Iris moves back in with her father and Ivy. ButContinue Reading
The June Boys
“The FBI found a body in Baxter, Tennessee, this morning. Juvenile. Male. Dumped on the side of the highway and phoned in by a motorist who had to pee and couldn’t wait.” Could it be the first death among The June Boys? Could it also be narrator Thea’s cousin Aulus?Continue Reading
Legendary Children
I have watched every season of Drag Race (even the blurry first one). However, I never fully understood the history of drag before reading Legendary Children. This book adds context to Rupaul’s Drag Race that I was completely missing. Each chapter starts with some section of the show and explainsContinue Reading
Dressed Up 4 Murder Review and Giveaway
It’s another zany adventure for Phee, her mother Harriet, and her private detective co-workers in Dressed Up 4 Murder. You would expect retirement to be a time of quiet reflection on a life well-lived. But in Sun City West, the giant planned retirement community in Arizona, you would be wrong.Continue Reading
You are not Alone
Shay is a numbers-obsessed single woman in NYC, who lives with her best friend, Sean, who she wishes was more than just a friend. Sean is oblivious to Shay’s interest in him and has a girlfriend, Jody. Shay has also recently lost her job. One day she is waiting forContinue Reading
Woman on the Edge
“‘I know what you want. Don’t let anyone hurt her. Love her for me, Morgan.’ She launches her baby toward me; my hands catch the infant by instinct. When I look back up at her mother a second later, the train is shrieking into the station. And that’s when sheContinue Reading
Beastars Vol 1
Everyone wants to be a hero, or even a superhero, in Beastars Vol 1, a new high school manga for grades 4 through 7. At Cherryton Academy, carnivores and herbivores live in separate dorms. But when an alpaca is killed, the carnivores are the prime suspects especially a large wolfContinue Reading
Beautiful Sheep
This is literally a book about Beautiful Sheep. With photos of forty different champion sheep representing their breed. Each breed page includes features, use, related breeds, size, origin, and current world distribution of each breed. As a born and bred city girl, I’m not sure why I have a fascinationContinue Reading
Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things, Revised Edition
It is amazing how many advanced items can be made from objects around the typical home. Who knew you could be a MacGyver as long as you have the Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things, Revised Edition? Use a magnet to detect a counterfeit bill? Build a battery out of basicallyContinue Reading
Follow Me
Someone is stalking Audrey. Audrey doesn’t care as long as her million followers continue to “Follow Me”. Audrey, you see, is that annoying “Insta influencer” that all your friends are talking about. Cat is her sole IRL friend from her college sorority. A successful attorney now, Cat is an introvertContinue Reading