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3 stars. I didn't think I would have that much to say about Tenth of December , but I ended up having a lot. I have wanted to read a work...

4 stars. I started 2025 with a very good read. Many critics have praised Anthony Doerr's vivid, sensory descriptions and lyrical prose (a...

5 stars. I wobbled between four and five stars for this book, but I decided I liked it enough to give it five. Among the many things I...

4 stars. I decided to take a break from my more literary reads to read something that had a wider appeal. John Grisham is now a legendary...

4 stars. Sally Rooney's Normal People may be the first book I have ever read that is set in contemporary Ireland. Rooney is Irish...

4 stars. Klara and the Sun, the second novel by Sir Kazuo Ishiguro that I have read, was very good, though not the novel I was expecting....

3 stars. Rebecca Serle's In Five Years was not what I was expecting from the beginning. Serle is an author known for her magical realism...

4 stars. S.C. Gwynne's Empire of the Summer Moon was recommended to me by a bookseller as a Pulitzer Prize nominee for nonfiction. It...

4 stars. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens was a very good if not slightly slow read. It also proves that you’re never too old to...

4 stars. "Pretty as a Picture" was a very enjoyable if slightly lacking read. First off, it was about film production, a subject in which...

5 stars. Having heard that I was facing another light read, I was not terribly optimistic after my last read. However, I had nothing to...

TJ Klune is another talented writer, but I did not get the point of "The House in the Cerulean Sea." This is not to say the novel was...

"Evicted" by Matthew Desmond made me think. And that's a good thing. It made me think primarily about people who do not have my means....

"When Ghosts Come Home" was an enjoyable if slightly laborious read. Wiley Cash paints a vivid picture of the North Carolina coast many...

While the premise is relatively common, "The Last Thing He Told Me" excels on the execution. Laura Dave's work is a thrilling read which...