The working title of my upcoming middle grade fantasy novel, Falling to Fairyland, was originally a lot less magical-sounding. From day one of its inception as a baby idea to pretty much the finished product, I called the book Cricket the Ward. It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, I know. I also knew that a lot of people, especially younger readers, might […]
There is something deeply unsettling about a meal prepared with love that might also be prepared with intent to kill. Lisa Unger understands this tension instinctively, and in Served Him Right by Lisa Unger, she transforms a simple Sunday brunch into a pressure cooker of buried grudges, ancient botanical knowledge, and the kind of female […]
The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft was written in the summer of 1926. It was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft The Call […]
Grief carves out its own aching quiet — it’s not silence, because life crashes on. The phone rings with urgency…. The post Why I Keep Reading, Even When Life Is Loud appeared first on She Reads Everything.
There is a particular ache that comes with reading a novel that understands you better than you understand yourself. Once and Again by Rebecca Serle is that kind of book — a luminous, heartbreaking exploration of what it means to hold the power to undo the past and still choose to move forward. Serle, the […]
Releasing this April, we have stunning short story collection from Kim Choyeop and a much anticipated new novel from American poet Ben Lerner. Enjoy 5 Sensational New Books for April 2026! This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. 5 Sensational New Books for April 2026 […]
When a book manages to make you laugh on one page and press your knuckles to your chest on the next, you know you’re in the hands of someone who understands the architecture of feeling. How to Write a Love Story by Catherine Walsh is that kind of book — a romance that earns every […]
Most book club plot discussions go one of two ways. Either everyone summarises what happened — pleasant, but not illuminating for people who read the same book — or someone spots a plot hole and the conversation stalls for twenty minutes. Everyone leaves feeling vaguely unresolved. Both conversations are valid. Neither one, however, gets at […]
A poignant unveiling of one family’s experience with Alzheimer’s and the toll it takes on all of them Cynthia Cook’s memoir of a family devastated by Alzheimer’s is touching, joyful, angering, and ultimately sad. With a combination of real and imagined narratives, plus text messages, and the reflections of a few sentient family heirlooms, What […]
A raw and candid memoir about going from teen mom to successful entrepreneur Jennifer Gauthier’s path to being the CEO of her own nonprofit was neither easy or linear; from becoming a mother at seventeen to working as an escort to make ends meet, her life has been unconventional to say the least. Her misadventures […]