Verity, Colleen Hoover Well, as you can see, I finally decided to see what all the hype is about. After…
Velvet Was the Night, Silvia Moreno-Garcia Set in Mexico City in the 1970s, Velvet Was the Night follows the lives…
The Oasis, Mary McCarthy This slim novel by Mary McCarthy surely made an enormous splash in her social circle when…
How Much of These Hills is Gold, C Pam Zhang This book ended up surprising me. I am normally not…
The Liars’ Gospel, Naomi Alderman Alderman is better known today for her novel The Power, which won the Women’s Prize…
The Groves of Academe, Mary McCarthy This is the first novel I have read of McCarthy’s who was prolific in…
The Mercies, Kiran Millwood Hargrave I have been wanting to read The Mercies for a long time, and finally bumped…
The Shining Girls, Lauren Beukes The Shining Girls is a novel I would never have chosen to read on my…
Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell This novel is called Hamnet, after Shakespeare’s son who died as a child, but it is really…
It has been way too long since I have been able to write one of these posts! My biannual reading…