Natsume Sōseki was a Japanese novelist and poet. He is considered one of the greatest writers in modern Japanese history and is often called the first modern novelist of Japan. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. Natsume Soseki and Modern Japanese Literature Early Life […]
The Ravenhood saga is its own ecosystem, and walking into Triple Falls expecting a tidy standalone means stepping into the middle of a long conversation. Birds of a Feather is book three of the Ravenhood Legacy, sitting after One Last Rainy Day and Severed Heart, and it leans hard on the lore Kate Stewart built […]
The Inmate by Freida McFadden on November 27, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Thrillers / Crime, Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense Pages: 425 Format: Audiobook Buy on Amazon Goodreads There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security:1) Treat all prisoners with respect.2) […]
Good Material by Dolly Alderton on August 1, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Friendship, Fiction / General, Fiction / Humorous / General, Fiction / Performing Arts / General, Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Fiction / Women Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads Good Material was my book club […]
There is a moment early in Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan when Dolly Brick, thirty-nine and biking through the wealthy Rhode Island town she grew up in, stops to change a flat tire for a man in a six-hundred-dollar shirt. The man is Stewart Whitfield. His family name is bolted to half the […]
A searing spiritual memoir that explores the far-reaching influence of Jezebel across generations and what it takes to overcome it The Jezebel Tracks delivers an edgy synthesis of remembering and evangelizing. It’s rooted in Gardner Landry’s belief that covert Christian narcissism reflects the spiritual influences of the Biblical Jezebel—the wicked queen. Getting away from this […]
A haunting curse, a sweet romance, and a bewitching magic system enchantingly meld together in this gorgeously written fantasy. Lily Bellamy and Andresh Zatavier are each haunted by the loss of a parent in their childhoods. For Lily, the haunting is literal—visions of her mother’s corpse follow her reflection. For Andresh, the haunting is emotional—a […]
A thoughtful middle-grade baseball novel with more on its mind than winning Suzanne Kamata’s Pop Flies, Robo-Pets, and Other Disasters opens with a setup that might sound familiar. Satoshi Matsumoto has returned to Japan after three years in Atlanta, where he was the star of his middle-school baseball team. He comes back with a good […]
A sweetly relatable family vacation story where the middle child strives to make a name for herself Emma, the second of three siblings, is tired of being in the middle all the time. Squished between her two brothers on a long ride to the beach, she brainstorms how she can stop being second pick and […]
A tightly paced supernatural thriller involved in the seedy handlings of tech secrets In C.J. Finch’s ambitious page-turner Pull, a man with the psychic ability to gain people’s memories through mere touch is targeted for high-value unencrypted files by an unknown and equally gifted assailant. In New York City, Alex Hemsley is the chief technology […]