My Last Innocent Year: A Novel
Midway through her senior year of college, Isabel finds herself enmeshed in a sexual encounter that she feels, in hindsight, was not entirely consensual. Her activist roommate publ...
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Before I Forget sounds sharper and sadder than most memory books
Books about memory can get sentimental in a hurry. Before I Forget sounds like it may have more nerve than that.
Read more →A Touch of Moonlight: A Novel
Every full moon, Larimar Cintrón’s naturally curly hair straightens itself out. Her ankles twist themselves around until her feet face backward. She can run so fast that she’s flyi...
Read more →A readable novel with enough edge to keep things honest
I’m drawn to books that are welcoming without being bland. A novel can be easy to enter and still have a little nerve.
Read more →Self-Publish a Book in 10 Steps by Hank Quense
About the Book: Self-publishing a book is difficult. This book simplifies it by breaking down a self-publishing and marketing project into 10 steps. This step-by-step process will ...
Read more →The book review industry needs a clearer line on AI
Authors are being asked to trust services that do not always explain how reviewer work is screened. That has to change.
Read more →Academy Arcanist by Shami Stovall
Book Summary: Hopes. Dreams. And literal nightmares out to kill a young boy. Gray Lexly, son of a candlemaker, wants to escape his life of old-world technologies and study at the p...
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The Books That Feel Most Alive to Me Right Now
The books that stay with me are not always the neatest ones. Usually they are the ones asking the hardest questions in the most human way.
Read more → Why I Trust a Book That Does Not Rush Its Questions
Some books want to prove a point quickly. I usually trust the ones willing to live with complexity a little longer.
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Holler Whispers is a smart, readable legal mystery
Holler Whispers has a clear commercial hook, but it reads with more texture than a bare-bones legal thriller.
Read more →My Expansion by Nancy Manet
Story Summary Big Bear thinks they know how things are supposed to be for the cub: Don’t run too fast. Don’t get your feet wet. Do what the “good” bears are doing. Never stray from...
Read more →A Second Chance by Asher Frend
Here’s what A Second Chance gets right that most coming-of-age fiction doesn’t: it shows manipulation as a process, not an event. Mikaila and Chara are best friends. Asa is the per...
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