Heart Berries
Review What an outstanding memoir, Heart Berries was unputdownable and is one of the few books that I would honestly read again. Terese’s prose is precise and strikingly beautiful even…
Marriage of a Thousand Lies
Review Marriage of a Thousand Lies is an absolutely stunning book that I picked up completely by chance. It gives readers a lot to unpack in a seriously small package.…
Into the Water
Review Mystery can be a difficult genre to write. An author needs to strike a good balance between giving clues while not making things too predictable and adding twists that…
Women & Power: A Manifesto
Review Women & Power is a pair of essays by classicist Mary Beard and it is a great example of how history can provide context for the present day. The…
The Memory Police
Review The Memory Police is one of the most disorienting and haunting novels that I had ever read. It felt like watching a black and white movie on a projector…
Tyrannosaurus Sext
Review Came for T-Rex sex, did not get T-Rex sex. What a bait and switch. These two stories were silly and a decent way to pass the time. Half the…
The Bell Chime
Review The Bell Chime had so much potential, but it was an unfortunate case of "less is more." The first half of the story was honestly unnerving and felt like…
Little Lies
Review It seems like I either love or hate Gudenkauf's work and there is rarely any in-between. She has a reoccurring theme of females investigating crimes and having access to…
If the Duke Demands
Review You ever read a book that you are initially dazzled by, and then slowly grow more disappointed until the end when the plot comes crashing down? Oh, how I…
The Future
Review So I discovered Hilborn's work after watching him perform The Future a couple of years back and the poem had stayed with me ever since. I sought out more…