Books

The Black Wolf ★★★☆☆

I'm conflicted about this one. Louise Penny's writing remains impressive at creating the right mood and

Did I Say You Could Go ★★★★☆

Wacky and infuriating, but it keeps you reading. Told from the perspective of four characters, it gives you an insight

The Compound ★★★★☆

I don't watch reality shows, but this book, based on one, reads like one. Consumerism, late-stage capitalism, and

The Essex Serpent ★★★★☆

Read it more for the mood and for the sadness of dashed fears, unrequited love, loss of purpose, and abject

The Astral Library ★★☆☆☆

I couldn’t relate to Kate Quinn going from writing about strong women in historical fiction novels set in times

Small Great Things ★★★★☆

Good intentions and says all the right things but a little too exposition-y. It ends a bit too perfectly. But

The Poppy Fields ★★★★☆

Erlick's second novel (for me) tackles grief more directly. Centered around three characters who are forced by circumstances

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves ★★★★★

Gilbert covers a lot of ground exploring incidences of women's exploitation in music, entertainment, reality TV, and even

Little Fires Everywhere ★★★★★

Brilliantly written, it explores the frustrations yet the deep love mothers have for their daughters. I also love how Ng

The Dream Hotel ★★★★★

Minority Report meets an authoritarian government that seems just too real to be considered a dystopian future. The real story

The Stardust Grail ★★★☆☆

A tad all over the place in terms of the narrative. It’s definitely ambitious in its world building and

The Seep ★★★☆☆

Notable Highlights When connected with the aliens through water or bodily fluids, it was impossible to feel anything except expansive

The Daughter of Time ★★★★★

An excellent and logical solving of a historical mystery from a hospital bed helped by an enthusiastic research assistant. And

Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company ★★★★★

Atmosphere: A Love Story ★★★★☆

A tad sentimental with either little too perfect characters but charming. It got better in the last quarter. * Format: 341

All Better Now ★★★★☆

Very much Pluribus-like but more action-packed. But it explicitly explores the duality of the "good" disease; something that

Mother Mary Comes to Me ★★★★★

Beautiful, poetic, and brutally candid, as she always is, Arundhati Roy writing only her third book, memoirs her childhood shaped

The Secret of Secrets ★★★☆☆

Dan Brown seems to have lost the art of making you turn the pages and with near 700 pages, this