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September 2, 2025

It Didn’t Start With You

It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle, Mark Wolynn, 2016 Beware of…

July 23, 2025

Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller, 2012 It may have been the unchecked hype for this novel that made it such a disappointment. Scrolling through…

May 12, 2025

Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood, 1972 Cat’s Eye is a book about retrospect. Elaine, a woman in her middle age, returns to her hometown of…

March 23, 2025

Heir of Fire, Sarah J Maas, 2014 In Heir of Fire, Celaena becomes Aelin and we finally get her childhood backstory (among other things)!…

February 21, 2025

Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2021 Malibu Rising is a stand-alone novel that is part of what I’ve heard called the Mick Riva universe:…

February 11, 2025

The Housemaid, Freida McFadden, 2022 Okay. Let me first preface my negativity by saying I did enjoy this novel! I read it in three…

February 5, 2025

Lasher, Anne Rice, 1993 Anne Rice, queen of dark whimsy. Amazing. Full Recap: (Spoilers) From where we left off in The Witching Hour (book…

January 25, 2025

The Assassin’s Blade, Sarah J Maas, 2014 Before I get into it! The Throne of Glass series’ reading order is reader’s choice, and the…

December 30, 2024

Lovelight Farms, B.K. Borison, 2021 So this is the life I’d like to live. I’m 42 pages in, and I’ve smiled no less than…

December 20, 2024

Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton, 1911 People say this is Edith’s best novel?? Have people read The Age of Innocence? I did [years ago] and…