Jackpot Summer by Elyssa Friedland on June 11, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Family Life / General, Fiction / Humorous / General, Fiction / Women Pages: 384 Format: Audiobook Buy on Amazon Goodreads In Elyssa Friedland’s new novel, Jackpot Summer, the Jacobson siblings are thrust into a whirlwind of drama, laughter, and unexpected challenges when they […]
Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage on June 6, 2023 Genres: Fiction / General, Fiction / Romance / General Pages: 288 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads I had this book on my TBR for a while but I kept putting it off because of the cover. I should NOT have waited on this one! […]
Breaking the Dark by Lisa Jewell on July 4, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Action & Adventure, Fiction / Crime, Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General Pages: 464 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads Meet Jessica Jones: Retired super hero, private investigator, loner. She tried her best to be a shiny spandex crimefighter, but that […]
My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor on September 9, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Biographical, Fiction / Friendship, Fiction / Historical / 20th Century / World War II, Fiction / Historical / General, Fiction / Jewish, Fiction / Thrillers / Historical, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense, Fiction / War & Military Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover Buy […]
If you had given 13-year-old me a choice whether to move to Hong Kong or stay in Toronto, chances are I would have said, “No way I’m going to Hong Kong! Why leave everything I know and love to start over somewhere so completely new and different?” Well, we moved anyway, and like any kind […]
The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James on October 4, 2022 Genres: Fiction / Thrillers / Historical, Fiction / Thrillers / Supernatural, Fiction / Women Pages: 336 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads “I don’t have an opinion about ghosts. It’s people I don’t believe in, I suppose.” 1920s England. Sarah Piper’s lonely, […]
My first memory of learning about slavery is the imagined cries of a baby whipped across the face beneath a merciless sun. I am five years old, seated in my father’s lap, the pages of And The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton splayed before me. The illustrations are sepia tone, the brown hues of […]
Ask ten writers how they pursue this ancient and often bewildering craft of ours, and you’ll get ten different answers. I recall, for example, reading an interview with Lee Child where he said that eating any bite of food during his workday entirely stops his flow of words, and so he fasts every day at […]
We loved covering the entire living room walls with our drawings. (left: my sister, right: me!) I spent my childhood in both the US and Korea and moved frequently. At one point, I attended three different middle schools in two countries. Adjusting to different cultures wasn’t easy. I felt happiest and safest at home, especially […]
The Au Pair Affair by Tessa Bailey on July 16, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Fiction / Romance / Sports, Fiction / Women Pages: 384 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads Tallulah is smart, vivacious, and studying to be a marine biologist. She’s also twenty-six and broke. […]