5 End-of-Summer Reads To Check Out Before the Season Slips Away

Four Romances & A Contemporary Fiction, But Who's Counting? How is it already the middle of August? It's been a summer of great reads, but we've still got a couple of weeks to go before summer slips away. I've got five end-of-summer reads for you to check out -- three I've read, and two more…

ByMichelleAugust 17, 20210Comments

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Book Review: The Tiger Mom’s Tale by Lyn Liao Butler

Review copy provided free by the publisher While Lyn Liao Butler's debut is called The Tiger Mom's Tale, for me, this is really a book about sisterhood. After more than 20 years estranged from her father and stepfamily in Taiwan, Lexa goes back to grapple with the stepmother who forced her out and separated her…

ByMichelleJuly 27, 20210Comments

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The Rehearsals by Annette Christie | Book Review & Excerpt

Review copy provided free by the author Feels and Reveals, For Reals Where do I even start? I think I was pre-disposed to love Annette Christie's adult debut, The Rehearsals, out today. I live in the Pacific Northwest, I've been to the San Juan Islands and I love a good time loop. (Did you read…

ByMichelleJuly 13, 20210Comments

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Book Review: Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane

Review copy provided by the publisher I got it totally wrong when I thought Just Last Night would be a beach read. Light, it is not. But Mhairi McFarlane's latest novel is absolutely wonderful. Now that I've read it, I get why the synopsis was so (purposely) vague. It made me think the story was…

ByMichelleJune 2, 20210Comments

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8 Books that Got Me Through 2020

Rollercoaster is the only word I can think of to describe my reading life in 2020. You'd think that in a year when you can't go to concerts, sporting events, the movies or really even restaurants, I should have been burning through books. But reading was hard! I had slumps, I read slower than…

ByMichelleDecember 10, 20200Comments

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The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan | Book Review

Review Copy Provided by the Publisher The Heir Affair, the follow up to 2015’s The Royal We, is a dishy reality check on an institution we’ve been led to believe is one long fairytale. But as we’ve seen in real life, "the Firm's" stiff upper lip facade is hiding more intrigue, ego, and deception than…

ByMichelleJuly 9, 20200Comments

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Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis | Book Review

ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley Break out the tissue box! I ripped through Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis in a day. At turns charming and devastatingly sad, it follows Emmie Blue, a teenager who released a balloon with her email address on a card and found a friend an ocean away.…

ByMichelleJuly 7, 20200Comments

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Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho | 5-Star Book Review

Review copy provided by the publisher How often do you cheer out loud and do a fist pump when reading a book? The other night, I finished Last Tang Standing by debut author Lauren Ho, and on page 395, I actually did a fist pump. I was giddy as I slid into the last…

ByMichelleJune 14, 20200Comments

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Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson | Book Review

ARC provided by the publisher for review Friends-to-Lovers + Family, Community, and Funny as Hell Lines Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson opens just after the death of Mama Joy, owner of Harlem institution Strong Knits. Not only are her four adopted sons grieving, they're flailing over what to do with the shop. …

ByMichelleMay 26, 20200Comments

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Get a First Look Inside THE SUMMER SET by Aimee Agresti

Old Flames and Old Rivalries Transform into a Story About Second Chances and Getting Your Act Together The Summer Set by Aimee Agresti is available now. In THE SUMMER SET, Aimee Agresti takes you to the Berkshires where former Hollywood A-lister Charlie Savoy is spending the summer at the theater company that launched her career.…

ByMichelleMay 12, 20200Comments