For me, memories of reading are about connection: curled in my father’s lap, listening to stories from The Fairy Tale Book by Marie Ponsot, or my mother at my bedside reading classics like The Secret Garden and Little Women. I even felt connected to Louisa May Alcott because we regularly drove past her house in Concord, Massachusetts. And so, books […]
Grumpy Mother Pucker by Sarah Smith on May 11, 2026 Format: ARC Buy on Amazon Goodreads Grumpy Mother Pucker by Sarah Smith surprised me in the best way possible! I expected this to lean a little more immature because of the college setting, but the writing felt much more mature and emotionally grounded than I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A fast-paced, ruthless space-western where the only thing worse than the monsters are the people who profit off them On the unforgiving planet Kalderra, Mona Ripple has a job that no one envies. Tasked with scavenging the bodies of kameeba, huge, gelatinous creatures with valuable flesh and even more precious hearts, she and her team […]
Some homecomings are not really homecomings. They are surrenders dressed up in a coat of duty. That is the bruised feeling at the centre of John of John by Douglas Stuart, the third novel from the author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo. John-Calum (Cal) Macleod, broke and graduated from a Scottish textile college with […]
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas on March 3, 2020 Genres: Fiction / Fantasy / Action & Adventure, Fiction / Fantasy / Romance Pages: 803 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all night-until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her […]
Synopsis: One wrong turn. Seven locked doors. No way out. When Kayla wakes up in a silent, snow-covered forest void of all life, her only sanctuary is a mysterious, pristine manor nestled among the trees. Inside, the coffee is hot and the decor is lavish, but the inhabitant is nowhere to be found. The only […]