What I'm writing, What I'm reading
I received a digital advance readers’ copy of The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles from the publisher (Atria Books) in exchange for an honest review. The Paris Library is scheduled for release on February 2, 2021. The Paris Library is a dual-time novel. We start in the 1980s, following teenage Lily in Montana as... Continue Reading →
Petra slid her hand along the wooden banister, letting the rough wood bite into her skin. When she was ten, the wood had been smooth, silk sliding along her flesh, worn and polished by the run of thousands of young hands along its length. Neglected and exposed, it had aged, the banister wrinkling and drying... Continue Reading →
I received an Advance Reader’s Edition of The Second Home by Christina Clancy from the publisher (St. Martin’s Press) in exchange for an honest review. The Second Home is scheduled for release June 2, 2020. The Second Home focuses on Ann, a woman who is returning to her family’s second home on the Cape to... Continue Reading →
I received an Advance Reader’s Edition of Devolution by Max Brooks from the publisher (Del Rey) in exchange for an honest review. Devolution is scheduled for release on May 12, 2020. Devolution takes place in a small ecocommunity outside Seattle. Kate and her husband have just joined the planned community and are working through the... Continue Reading →
July 2I think that’s today’s date. I’m not entirely sure. Which is why I started this journal. I’m worried I’m going to lose track of how long I’ve been here, lose track of when I get to go back home. I’m mostly sure I’ve been here a week? I’ll know in a couple of days... Continue Reading →
I received an Advance Reader’s Edition of Grown Ups by Emma Jane Unsworth from the publisher (Scout Press) in exchange for an honest review. Grown Ups is scheduled for release May 12, 2020. Grown Ups is the story of Jenny, a social-media obsessed woman in her thirties who is still working on how to be... Continue Reading →
I received a copy of Hello, Summer by Mary Kay Andrews from the publisher (St. Martin’s Press) in exchange for an honest review. Hello, Summer is scheduled for release May 5, 2020. Hello, Summer is the story of a woman returning to her childhood home in the small town south. Conley expected to be moving... Continue Reading →
I received an Advance Reading Copy of The Prisoner’s Wife by Maggie Brookes from the publisher (Berkley) in exchange for an honest review. The Prisoner’s Wife is scheduled for release on May 26, 2020. The Prisoner’s Wife is a novel inspired by a true story. Brookes states in her note at the end of the... Continue Reading →
1996 AD. I wake up in vomit. I am swimming in a viscous pool of funk on the thin, dingy blue carpet that covers the hall floor of my dorm. The smell is somewhere between battery acid and dog shit. As I slowly lift my head, I feel the sticky stretchiness of the tendrils running... Continue Reading →
I received an electronic advanced reader’s copy of Sin Eater by Megan Campisi from the publisher (Atria Books) in exchange for an honest review. Sin Eater is scheduled for release on April 7, 2020. May is an orphan who finds herself facing punishment for stealing. Expecting death, she is surprised to be sentenced as a... Continue Reading →
Susan Monroe McGrath 