Tag: book review
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Review: Love on Lexington Avenue
One of my biggest pet peeves in the reading community is when people dismiss light and fun books as silly, pointless “fluff.” Like, unless you’re reading dense literary tomes then you’re not to be taken seriously as a reader. There’s a not-so-subtle misogyny in this view, too: men can read their Tom Clancy and Lee…
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Review: The Glass Woman
An unexpected gem! I asked to review this solely based on the fact that it is set in Iceland in the 1600s and I’ve never read a book with that setting! I was captivated from the first chapter, when we meet Rosa, a young woman in an Icelandic village who has agreed to marry Jon,…
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Review: 29 Seconds
Are you ready for the #metoo thriller of the year? Synopsis: “Give me one name. One person. And I will make them disappear.” Sarah is a young professor struggling to prove herself in a workplace controlled by the charming and manipulative Alan Hawthorne. A renowned scholar and television host, Hawthorne rakes in million-dollar grants for…
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Review: This Tender Land
I fell hard for William Kent Krueger’s writing with his 2013 bestseller, Ordinary Grace, and have been eagerly awaiting this follow-up. Like Ordinary Grace, This Tender Land is told from the point of view of a boy on the cusp of adolescence. Our hero is Odie, a 12 year old orphan being raised as one…
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Review: The Dearly Beloved
This novel spoke to me in a soul-deep way, exploring questions that have circled in my mind for years. The story follows two young couples (Charles and Lily, James and Nan) who meet when Charles and James accept a joint ministry at a Presbyterian Church in 1960s NYC. Charles is a true believer, who feels…
Bradeigh Godfrey 