Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
Over the past few weeks, as I have been telling people how much I liked this historical biography of a Roman empress, I have gotten some very skeptical responses. And I get it–it doesn’t sound like...
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The Great Believers
I struggle with literary fiction. I read it, but I often feel like there is a disconnect with how the rest of the world, and reviewers in particular, see these novels and how I react to them. Over and...
View ArticleWrapping Up 2019 Recommendations
As usual, when I look back at the list of things I read this year, many of my favorites are already represented here. Some of them are things I already wrote about (A Sky Painted Gold, The Great...
View ArticleReading Through the Pandemic
So, it’s been a while. 2020, huh? I may have aged 20 years since February. Everyone hanging in there? While I have definitely spent my share of this pandemic doom-scrolling, playing a truly astounding...
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A Break from Books
I know I am not the only person currently struggling to rip myself away from Twitter and Tiktok, right? I mean, I take a short nap and so many insane things have happened that I can hardly keep up! I...
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The House in the Cerulean Sea
Just hours after I finished this book and started recommending it to most everyone I know, Alison at Ask a Manager named it her favorite book of the year, so I feel in very good company telling you to...
View ArticleRead a Damn Book Hotline
I have been a fan of Evelyn from the Internets for years and years, but she’s really been speaking for the masses lately. Her latest video was just so genius I had to share with my people here. Happy...
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The Goblin Emperor
A friend once told me that he had improved his life by deciding that he would never again read a book that started with a map. I have a similar philosophy about books that start with a list of...
View ArticleWhat I Read When I Dropped Off the Face of the Earth
Whew, 2021 and 2022, huh? The last, let’s see, 18 months have been a rollercoaster ride for me and for seemingly everyone else I know. I may not have been posting here, but I have been reading and...
View ArticleHench
Ages and ages ago, Rebecca reviewed a funny romance novel called Love for the Cold-Blooded, which peeked behind the scenes of life as a super-villain’s sidekick. That story felt so fresh because it...
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