Content warnings: Domestic abuse A necessary gut-punch of a book that balances tragedy with renewal A woman is killed by a family member or partner every eleven minutes, with homicide being one of the leading causes of death for women. Sometimes, the danger escalates when a woman tries to leave her abuser. With the enduring […]
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The Anniversary by Alex Finlay
Crime Scene: May 1, 1992 Some thrillers chase you through a single weekend. The Anniversary by Alex Finlay stretches the hunt across ten years, returning every May 1st to two seventeen-year-olds whose lives split apart on a single Nebraska night in 1992. Quinn Riley, the bookish kid from the wrong side of Monarch, swings a […]
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Tortured Soles by Fran Weinstein
Part heartfelt memoir, part Hollywood tell-all, Tortured Soles is a love letter to late 20th century entertainment culture. In this sure-handed memoir, celebrity journalist Fran Weinstein shares her evolution from “wounded little girl from the Bronx in bargain-basement buckled flats” to stiletto-wearing Hollywood insider with the sharp candor of your favorite aunt. Weinstein covers ample […]
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Broken Dove by Dani Francis
The trouble with following a runaway bestseller is that everyone arrives with expectations clenched in their fists. With Broken Dove by Dani Francis, the second installment in the Silver Elite series, Dani Francis (the pen name of contemporary romance veteran Elle Kennedy) doesn’t try to outshine her debut. She does something harder. She trusts that […]
A moody, suspenseful noir about stolen money, revolutionary ghosts, and the kind of ambition hell-bent on drinking itself under Ron Morris’s Edge of the Golden Moon opens with a classic noir premise, but it gets stranger, sweatier, and more psychologically complicated as time goes on. Bert is a teacher at a language school in Bangkok, […]
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Best books on Appalachian folk magic
From Primary Sources to Living Practice One of my earliest memories of my grandmother is after dark in the Appalachians… The post Best books on Appalachian folk magic appeared first on She Reads Everything.
Somewhere between the talking bunny and the rapping baby, this story does something sneaky: it helps kids sit with fear without being swallowed by it. Some children’s books help kids fall asleep. Others help them make sense of worries they don’t yet have the language for. Mari-chan and Roboto Bunny by Jon Kaczka is a […]
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Keep the Flowers by Ellie Williams
A moving, faith-filled exploration of loss caused by invisible illness Despite her young age, Ellie Williams has already survived decades with a sneaky invisible illness. Being dismissed by doctors since age nine while experiencing devastating and debilitating symptoms that her family couldn’t fully understand, Williams struggles to carry on, leaning heavily on her family and […]
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Rules for the Summer by Meghan Quinn
Few rom-com setups arrive with as much swagger as this one: a posh British future-Lord clicks “yes” on a fiancé-matching profile during a drunken truth-or-dare, flies across the Atlantic with a ring in his pocket, and proposes to a paint-splattered candy shop hopeful in her front yard while his best friend feeds him her name […]
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Cupid of the Mess by Nico Patino
A fluid, introspective collection fueled by natural imagery, self-reflection, nostalgia, and experimental structures Utilizing a variety of experimental structures and forms, the poems in Cupid of the Mess dive straight into all of life’s messiness. Romance is the overall underlying conceit, but, in the case of these poems, the word “romance” doesn’t just apply to […]