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Review: Maid by Stephanie Land
Stephanie Land has written an intimate portrait of her struggle to survive as a single mother in a country where the system always seems to
juliegilkison
Nov 16, 20201 min read
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Review: Lanny by Max Porter
It's weird, but it's still good
juliegilkison
Oct 23, 20201 min read
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Review: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
I think Eleanor is one of my favorite characters of all time.
Both
Oct 18, 20201 min read
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Review: A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
A great story of love and survival.
bsgilki
Oct 18, 20201 min read
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Review: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
A creepy, eerie, fascinating story of survival, love, and a culture you might not ever know anything about.
Both
Oct 18, 20201 min read
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Review: Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly
How to harness your rage as a woman--including the rage you may not even know you had.
Both
Oct 18, 20201 min read
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Review: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
How had I never read this? It took me 45 minutes. Everyone needs to.
juliegilkison
Oct 18, 20201 min read
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Review: Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
Quirky characters, believable stories about average people. Wait until you discover who the redhead is!
bsgilki
Oct 18, 20201 min read
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Review: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
A happily married Black couple's life is turned into chaos when the husband is accused of rape. So racist it will make you sick!
Both
Oct 18, 20201 min read
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Review: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
It's a coming of age novel about Sylvia Plath's extraordinary, unfortunately short life. It's autobiographical, it's poetic, you find...
juliegilkison
Oct 18, 20201 min read
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Review: Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
I love all books Hoffman. In my venture to read all of her books, I realized I had never read the famous Practical Magic but had to read...
bsgilki
Oct 18, 20201 min read
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Review: Say Nothing by Patrick Keefe
bloody conflict between the Catholics and Protestants from the late 1960's until the peace accord of 1998. Riveting.
Both
Oct 18, 20201 min read
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Review: The Round House by Louise Erdrich
The plot and themes tell a story that are all too familiar for any Indigenous person in the states
juliegilkison
Oct 12, 20201 min read
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Review: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
How the Indigenous People of our country have over and over again been screwed over by those who came after the fact. Ugh!
juliegilkison
Oct 12, 20201 min read
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Review: Wilder Girls by Rory Power
It's like a modern Lord of the Flies, with girls, at a boarding school, and people are dying via some disease/creature/political experiment
juliegilkison
Sep 1, 20201 min read
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Review: Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
One of our favorites of 2019. Startlingly relevant--a must-read!
bsgilki
Sep 1, 20201 min read
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Review: The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
A difference of opinions..check out our review to decide if this is for you or not
juliegilkison
Sep 1, 20201 min read
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Review: The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
You're either gonna love it or hate...
bsgilki
Sep 1, 20201 min read
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Review: The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy
A memoir from one of Barb's favorites.
bsgilki
Sep 1, 20201 min read
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Review: The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
A good read if you like WWII books
bsgilki
Sep 1, 20201 min read
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