I had a Greek mythology phase* as a child (alas, Rick Riordon’s books were a couple of decades away) – one summer I read every Greek mythology library book in the small town where I visited my Reina, and I also devoured my mom’s copy of Edith Hamilton’s Mythology – she had written her name…
Tag: Fiction
Book Review: Long Bright River by Liz Moore
This book is tagged as a mystery/thriller, but I think it reads like literary fiction about a broken family. The main character is a police officer, estranged from her sister who is an opioid addict. The two girls were raised by a grandmother who was neglectful, hard, and closed off, due to the trauma of…
Book Review: Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown
The first time I started reading Society of Lies, I was deep in the process of watching my daughter apply to college, trying to uncover the secret formula to acceptance in a high tier school. Don’t trauma dump on the personal essay! Well roundedness is no longer a virtue – now you have to show…
Book Review: Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister
Famous Last Words is a thriller centered around a married couple. She is a book editor, he a ghostwriter, and they are new parents. On the day she is scheduled to return to the office after maternity leave, he disappears before she wakes up, leaving a cryptic note. She soon learns that he has taken…
Book Review: Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy
When my husband entered the room and saw me quietly sobbing, I held up my (library copy) of Wild Dark Shore as the reason. Some authors are famous for “tearjerker” novels, and those rarely get me – I don’t like to feel manipulated into crying when reading a book. We watched some palate cleanser television,…