In Pretty Baby, Mary Kubica’s (The Good Girl) sophomore novel, a Chicago humanitarian is moved to bring home a homeless teen and her baby, much to her husband and daughter’s chagrin. Who is this girl and what is she running from? I really enjoyed last summer’s The Good Girl and so have been eagerly anticipating […]
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From where I sit, the only flaw with Ernest Cline’s engaging second novel Armada is that it has really big shoes to fill. Cline’s sprawling, ingenious, and hilarious 2011 debut Ready Player One earned praise, awards, and an upcoming film adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg. Is Armada as rich, giddy, and clever as Ready Player […]
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Taylor Jenkins Reid’s MAYBE IN ANOTHER LIFE is on sale today! This book really appealed to me with its “Sliding Doors” premise, the idea of fate, soul mates, relationships and second chances, and finding happiness and meaning in your life. This is the first book I’ve read by Reid (though I have her other two books […]
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Ani FaNelli is a successful magazine writer and she’s about to marry Luke, the man of her dreams. But, she’s still dealing with the demons from her high school days and feelings of inadequacy. A documentary about her troubled past threatens to expose the skeletons in her closet and the perfect life she’d constructed. Jessica […]
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Finding Jake is a tense, topical little book that centers on the aftermath of a school shooting. In a parent’s worst nightmare scenario, stay-at-home dad Simon hears that there was a shooting at his kids’ high school. All the students are accounted for except for his son Jake. Could he be one of the shooters? […]
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In YOU, Joe is a New York bookseller who develops a dangerous fixation on a young woman who enters his shop. Whoa Nelly, this book! The first word that comes to mind to describe it is unrelenting. It is so intense and addictive, but at the same time so painful and you just want it […]
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