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We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin

Buy this book on Amazon         When Sigrid, a 20-year-old working at an unsatisfying job, is left in a coma following a suicide attempt, her older sister, read more

Posted in Book Reviews, Fiction, Uncategorized

See Friendship by Jeremy Gordon

Buy this book on Amazon       See Friendship by Jeremy Gordon is a complex and thought provoking take on the “truths” about friendship and memory. Jacob Goldberg, a read more

Posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

A Pretender’s Murder by Christopher Huang

Buy this book on Amazon   “Some people invite confessions. Others perform to an audience. More rare are those who do neither, but shine like a flame amid the fluttering read more

Posted in Asian-related, Book Club Tidbits, Book Reviews, British-related, Mystery

Yellowface by R.F Kuang

Buy this book on Amazon   “I’d hate to live in a world where we tell people what they should and shouldn’t write based on the color of their skin.” read more

Posted in Book Reviews, Books about books, Fiction, Mystery, Uncategorized

Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang

Buy this book on Amazon “There was nothing outside the tower room that mattered, and nothing inside but [the children], their laughter, and the worlds their words conjured”.  Huang spins read more

Posted in Book Reviews, Fiction, George's Gems, History, Literary, Mystery

The Five Element Orchard by John C. Platt and Mary Rachel Platt

Buy this book on Amazon “Enter the forest and find your new life.” If you have ever wondered what it is about being in nature that soothes your body, mind, read more

Posted in Book Reviews, Good Living, Health, Non-Fiction

Interview with Rainbow Crate’s Danielle Chambers

R Goodies  What’s a Rainbow Crate Book Box?   If you haven’t heard about them,  Rainbow Crate is a company that sends out monthly LBGTQIA-themed book boxes to subscribers. Rainbow read more

Posted in Books as gifts, Interviews, LGBTQ

Rainbow Crates, The Restless Dark, and Sixteen Souls

What’s inside a Rainbow Crate box?           Here’s a different spin to my book reviews – a review of the physical book. For a couple of read more

Posted in Book Reviews, George's Gems

The Men Behind The Man From Mittelwerk: An interview with M.Z. Urlocker

The Story Behind the Story.  As an avid reader and writer, I am often intrigued by the history and technical aspects of a novel’s creation; what inspired the idea, the read more

Posted in Story Behind the Story, Thriller

Write for Your Life by Anna Quindlen

Buy this book on Amazon     “What sometimes gets lost . . . is that when she first began, Anne Frank wasn’t writing a book. She was talking to read more

Posted in Audiobooks, Book Reviews, Essays, Non-Fiction
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