When We Lost Our Heads - Heather O'Neill (Harper Collins Publishers, 2022) If you've read and enjoyed Heather O'Neill's novels before then chances are good you'll like her latest book, because you'll know what you're getting yourself into. While I don't know if I'd say I love O'Neill's work, I do have a lot of… Continue reading Book Review: When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O’Neill
I received an Advance e-copy of this book thanks to McClelland & Stewart and NetGalley. All opinions are my own. The stories in this new collection by Alexander MacLeod share a sort of unsettling quality. Moments in people's lives when things are not as they should be. Sometimes this shows up in something as obvious… Continue reading Book Review: Animal Person by Alexander MacLeod
Jack - Marilynne Robinson (McClelland & Stewart, 2020) There is something about Marilynne Robinson's writing that cuts to the core of human nature. Her words are careful and thoughtful and she nails humanity and what it is to be human beings, especially humans in relationship with one another. In Jack, Robinsons explores the character of… Continue reading Book Review: Jack by Marilynne Robinson
Read: The Odyssey - Lara Williams (Zando, 2022) Circe - Madeline Miller (Little, Brown, and Company, 2018) The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune (Tor, 2020) Jack - Marilynne Robinson (McClelland & Stewart, 2020) The Lonely Stories edited by Natalie Eve Garrett (Catapult, 2022) Did Not Finish: Lucia - Alex Pheby I picked… Continue reading What I Read – February 2022
The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune (Tor, 2020) This book was fine. It was a pretty fun, very light read without any particular surprises. I'd heard only positive things about it and so went into with fairly high expectations which were perhaps unfair to what the book is. While it's not exactly… Continue reading Book Review: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Little Prayers for Ordinary Days - Katy Bowser Hutson, Flo Paris Oakes, and Tish Harrison Warren (IVP Kids, 2022) I received an Advance Readers' Copy of this book from the publisher and NetGalley. All opinions are my own. Publication date: May 31st, 2022 In the past year I have been leaning into my liturgical roots.… Continue reading Book Review: Little Prayers for Ordinary Days
The Mothers - Brit Bennett (Riverhead Books, 2016) When Nadia Turner loses her mother to suicide, her grief and anger turn into rebellion, culminating in a relationship with the son of the pastor at her father's church. Nadia is seventeen, almost finished high school, while Luke is twenty-one, floundering after an injury ended his promising… Continue reading Book Review: The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Circe - Madeline Miller (Little, Brown, and Company, 2018) I had high hopes for Circe after enjoying The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller so much and I'm pleased to report that this book didn't disappoint. Circe is our main character and our narrator. She is a daughter of Titans, daughter of Helios, the sun… Continue reading Book Review: Circe by Madeline Miller
Hope in Times of Fear - Timothy Keller (Viking, 2021) Timothy Keller's latest book bears a subtitle suggesting it has a focus on Easter but I found it to be a book about so much more. Or, perhaps more accurately, it is about the very central tenets of the Christian faith which is, after all,… Continue reading Book Review: Hope in Times of Fear by Timothy Keller
I received an Advance Readers Copy of this book thanks to the publisher and NetGalley. All opinions are my ow. Publication date: April 26, 2022 This is such a weird book it's hard to know where to start. Weird doesn't mean bad though; discomfiting strikes me as a good description for Lara Williams latest book.… Continue reading Book Review: The Odyssey by Lara Williams
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