Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster (Edelweiss; NetGalley) Scott Wilbanks Sourcebooks Landmark paperback release: August 4, 2015 lemoncholy: (noun) 1. The habitual state in which one makes the best of a bad situation. (adjective) 2. Afflicted with, characterized by, or showing lemoncholy. I’ll just lay it right out there and tell you I loved this novel …
The Miniaturist (review) Jessie Burton Ecco When I was growing up I had a cardboard doll house that was over four feet tall—it was identical to this one. You’d think, cardboard—ugh. But it was incredibly sturdy and I treated it like the prized possession it was. The original house came with some cardboard furnishings, but …
Lawyer For the Dog Lee Robinson Thomas Dunne Books This was probably one of those times when I did choose a book by its cover. Take a look—how can you resist that little guy’s face?! (My first dog was a schnauzer, so that didn’t hurt either!) Lee Robinson’s Lawyer For the Dog is pretty simple …
I’m almost finished with my summer digital reader’s copies and when I am, man-oh-man, I am diving into this shelf of real, honest-to-goodness print books as soon as I can. I’ll breathe that thick paper and glue smell deeply and bookmark my pages with an honest-to-goodness dog-ear, not a wimpy little icon inserted at the …
You don’t have to live like this (Edelweiss) Benjamin Markovits Harper As a lifetime resident of the Midwest, I’m a sucker for novels about the region (especially those written by Midwesterners like this). I think the good-people-salt-of-the-earth values take on life is refreshing. So I’ve been anxiously waiting to read Benjamin Markovits’ novel about Detroit for …
What reader doesn’t like reading about books … or bookstores or libraries or authors, for that matter? I’m surprised, really, at how many I’ve read over the past year or two: A.J. Fikry, Small Blessings, Mill River Redemption, The Bookman’s Tale. Here are two recent releases, one about a powerful book and the other about …
The Truth According To Us (NetGalley) Annie Barrows Random House The charm of writer Annie Barrow’s Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is legendary, especially in the book club world. How many modern “literary societies”, I wonder, have read the novel since its publication in 2008? I know it had everything I love in a …
The Sound of Glass (NetGalley) Karen White New American Library You’re strong at the broken places. This novel starts with a bang–literally–on a hot summer night in Beaufort, South Carolina. Edith Heywood senses an eerie change in the night sounds as she works in her attic studio, then sees a flash of fire explode across …
Where Women Are Kings (NetGalley) Christy Watson Other Press There are three places where women are kings …Nigeria, childbirth, and heaven–these are the places where anything is possible for women. Elijah is a wizard. Not many little boys have wizards trying to creep out of their skin, and Elijah tries desperately to keep him in. Because …
The One I Was (Abovethetreeline) Eliza Graham Lake Union Publishing Rosamund Hunter has a secret—that much we know. A hospice nurse, she all but freezes as she stands in the vestibule of the imposing manor Fairfleet, home of her next patient, “trying to accustom [herself] to being at Fairfleet again.” And we’re off on a …
This is my symphony 