Book Review: Women Talking by Miriam Toews

*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Women Talking Author: Miriam Toews Publisher: Knopf Canada Publication Date: August 21, 2018 ISBN: 9780735273962 Synopsis from Goodreads: Based on actual events that happened between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community where more than 100 girls and women were druggedContinue reading “Book Review: Women Talking by Miriam Toews”

Review: #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso

Title: #GIRLBOSS Author: Sophial Amoruso Publisher: Portfolio Publication Date: 2015 ISBN: 9781591847939 Synopsis from Goodreads: Sophia Amoruso spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and scrounging in dumpsters for leftover bagels. By age twenty-two she had dropped out of school, and was broke, directionless, and checking IDs in the lobby of an art school—a job she’dContinue reading “Review: #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso”

Review: Mrs. by Caitlin Macy

 * I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. * Title: Mrs. Author: Caitlin Macy Publisher: Lee Boudreaux Books (Little, Brown) Publication Date: February 13, 2018 ISBN: 9780316434157 Synopsis from Goodreads: In the well-heeled milieu of New York’s Upper East Side, coolly elegant Philippa Lye is the woman no one canContinue reading “Review: Mrs. by Caitlin Macy”

Review: Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Manhattan Beach Author: Jennifer Egan Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: October 3, 2017 ISBN: 9781476716732 Synopsis from Goodreads: Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, sheContinue reading “Review: Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan”

Review: The Break by Katherena Vermette

Title: The Break Author: Katherena Vermette Publisher: House of Anansi Publication Date: Septemeber 2016 ISBN: 9781487001117 Synopsis from Goodreads: When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls theContinue reading “Review: The Break by Katherena Vermette”

Review: I’ll Have What She’s Having

*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: I’ll Have What She’s Having Author: Erin Carlson Publisher: Hachette Books Publication Date: August 29, 2017 ISBN: 9780316353908 Synopsis from Goodreads: In I’ll Have What She’s Having entertainment journalist Erin Carlson tells the story of the real Nora Ephron and how she reinventedContinue reading “Review: I’ll Have What She’s Having”

Review: Beyond the Wild River

*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Beyond the Wild River Author: Sarah Maine Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: April 18, 2017 ISBN: 9781501126956 Synopsis from Goodreads: Nineteen-year-old Evelyn Ballantyre has always done her duty as a daughter, hiding her boredom and resentment behind good manners—so when anContinue reading “Review: Beyond the Wild River”

Review: The Smoke Hunter by Jacquelyn Benson

*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: The Smoke Hunter Author: Jacquelyn Benson Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: September 13, 2016 ISBN: 9781455569069 Synopsis from Goodreads: London, 1898. Archivist Eleanora Mallory discovers a map to a legendary city . But is it the key to unravelling anContinue reading “Review: The Smoke Hunter by Jacquelyn Benson”

Review: Crossing the Horizon by Laurie Notaro

*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title:  Crossing the Horizon Author: Laurie Notaro Publisher: Gallery Books Publication Date: October 4, 2016 ISBN: 9781451659405 Synopsis from Goodreads: Ten thousand feet in the sky, flipping and twirling through the air, aviatrixes from London to Paris to New York—fueled by determination andContinue reading “Review: Crossing the Horizon by Laurie Notaro”

Review: The Summer Before the War

*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: The Summer Before the War Author: Helen Simonson Publisher: RandomHouse Publication Date: March 1, 2016 ISBN: 9780812993103 Synopsis from Goodreads: East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England’s brief Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that the weather has never been soContinue reading “Review: The Summer Before the War”