First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
It has been a few years since we last heard from the incomparably talented Sarah Addison Allen. I absolutely adore her tales of magical realism and can’t wait to dive into First Frost! Sarah has a...
View ArticleOlive Kitteridge Coming to TV
Here is your first glimpse of the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Elizabeth Strout. It looks stark, it looks honest, it looks raw and it looks beautiful. I...
View ArticleNational Book Award Finalists Announced
And the finalists are… Fiction: “An Unnecessary Woman” (Grove), by Rabih Alameddine, a Lebanese American artist who lives in San Francisco and Beirut. His novel tells the story of a reclusive...
View ArticleBooks To Pine For: THE HARDER THEY COME by T.C. Boyle
SUMMARY: Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle makes his Ecco debut with a powerful, gripping novel that explores the roots of violence and anti-authoritarianism inherent in the...
View ArticleHappiness for Beginners by Katherine Center {Review}
A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It’s supposed to be a chance for her...
View ArticleThe Signature of All Things Heading to TV
I’m so excited about this news! I really, really loved Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things. I loved the main character of Alma. She was feisty and strong and independent and just the exact...
View ArticleTo Be Read: Girl Through Glass by Sari Wilson
Summary: An enthralling literary debut that tells the story of a young girl’s coming of age in the cutthroat world of New York City ballet—a story of obsession and the quest for perfection, trust...
View Article{Review} And Again by Jessica Chiarella
Summary: In the spirit of Station Eleven and The Age of Miracles, this exciting literary debut novel, AND AGAIN by Jessica Chiarella, imagines the consequences when four ordinary individuals are...
View Article{Review}Your Heart is a Muscle The Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of A Fist by Sunil Yapa Little Brown, Release Date: January 12, 2016 Summary: The Flamethrowers meets Let the Great World Spin in this electrifying debut novel set...
View ArticleDear Fang, With Love by Rufi Thorpe {Review}
This heartbreaking and deceptively slim novel deals with big topics like the mental illness, abandonment, family relations and the Holocaust. After a long estrangement, Lucas wants to be back in his...
View ArticleMe Before You – Official Trailer
ME BEFORE YOU was a breakout novel for the enormously talented author, Jojo Moyes . With the film version set to hit theaters this summer, even more people will fall in love with the world created by...
View ArticleCover Reveal for Liane Moriarty’s New Book
Entertainment Weekly unveiled the cover for Liane Moriarty’s upcoming release, TRULY MADLY GUILTY. Moriarty is the author of the bestseller BIG LITTLE LIES which is now in production as a limited...
View ArticleBeverly Cleary is Turning 100!
Author Beverly Cleary will be turning 100 on April 12. Cleary is best known for her rambunctious and beloved character, Ramona Quimby. There isn’t a reader today who isn’t familiar with the sweet...
View ArticleBridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries by Helen Fielding
We all know that the latest installment in the life and times of Bridget Jones is hitting the screen later this month. But did you know Knopf is releasing a book by Helen Fielding to go along with the...
View ArticleOprah’s Book Club is Back!
The Book Club is Back! On Tuesday, August 2nd, Oprah Winfrey made her first book club selection in over a year. She selected Colson Whitehead’s brilliant novel The Underground Railroad. Ron Charles...
View ArticleBig Books of the Week 9/12/16
Here is a quick peek at the Big Books releasing today. Are any of these on your To Be Read list? Nutshell by Ian McEwan McEwan’s take on Hamlet set in modern day London, narrated by an erudite fetus in...
View ArticleBooks to Pine For: The Forever Summer by Jamie Brenner
BOOK SUMMARY: The discovery of long-buried secrets brings three generations of women together to Cape Cod for the summer homecoming of a lifetime. Marin Bishop has always played by the rules, and it’s...
View ArticleWhat I’m Reading Now ~ WE WERE ON A BREAK by Lindsey Kelk
A hilarious, modern and insightful look at modern coupledom from the initimiable Lindsey Kelk “You’ve just had a holiday,” I pointed out, trying not to yawn. “Wasn’t that enough of a break?”“I don’t...
View ArticleAmerican Housewife Writer Pens Novel {Books to Pine For}
Last night was the premiere of AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE, a sitcom about a “plus-sized” woman living in the land of Stepford Wives. Can she survive with her dignity, and family, intact? The premise sounds...
View ArticlePACHINKO by Min Jin Lee
Book of the Month just picked PACHINKO by Min Jin Lee as one of their picks for the month of February. They’re not the only ones shouting praise for this extraordinary novel by the author of FREE FOOD...
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