So this week, it's time for Diversity Spotlight Thursday, sponsored by Aimal @ Bookshelves and Paperbacks. For this event, you highlight a diverse read that you've read and enjoyed, a diverse read you want to read, and a diverse read that's not out yet. So without further ado, here's my first Diversity Spotlight Thursday. A Book … Continue reading Diversity Spotlight Thursday #2
Tag: Literary Fiction
Book Traveling Thursdays is a weekly event hosted by Danielle's Book Blog and The Girl Who Read Too Much. Each participant picks a book to match a theme, then finds the original cover, the covers for your country, and identifies favorite/least favorite covers. For more information, check out the Goodreads page. This week's theme is … Continue reading Book Traveling Thursdays: A Book that Should be a Classic
A book with a voice I love, The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis is a very literary thriller, a psychological study, and a taut suspense novel. The novel follows Elka, a teenager who discovers that the man who has raised her is a serial killer. Living in a post-apocalyptic world, Elka encounters Trapper, a hunter, … Continue reading Review: The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis
This book is one of my favorite books, and has a wonderful audio book as well. I recently listened to the audio during Bout of Books, but had read the book several years ago. It's an enchanting tale. While the story itself does not seem to stand out at first glance, Enzo, the narrator, is … Continue reading Review: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
A hard book to read, yet one that should be essential reading, Homegoing follows the family lines of two half-sisters in Africa, one of whom marries an English man and stays in Africa, and one of whom is sent to America as a slave. Each chapter (after the initial two) is from the point of view of … Continue reading Review: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
This is not a book for the faint of heart. It depicts real struggle with mental illness, as well as real struggle with one's own life and history and background. Narrated by the father of a young girl recently diagnosed as bipolar, it shows the struggle of her loved ones to accept her fate, her … Continue reading Review: Dear Fang, With Love by Rufi Thorpe
This is a book to be savored. It is not an uplifting book. It is not a book for everyone. It's upsetting. It's beyond depressing. But it's still important and it's still worth savoring. McDaniel transports us to a little town in Ohio in the 1980's, which still manages to feel like a town straight … Continue reading Review: The Summer that Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel
I've seen this book frequently billed as a retelling of Jane Eyre, but that's not quite what it is. The heroine's name is also Jane, this is true. She even reads Jane Eyre. But where Jane Eyre is timid and accepting of her fate, Jane Steele is NOT having it. While some story events are similar to those … Continue reading A Victorian Heroine for the Modern Age: Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
Book Traveling Thursdays is a weekly event hosted by Danielle's Book Blog and The Girl Who Read Too Much. For more information, check out the Goodreads page, too. This week, the theme is a book you would choose to read on a lazy day. For me, lazy day reads are something I want to read … Continue reading Book Traveling Thursday: A Read for a Lazy Day
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine. Participating bloggers highlight an upcoming release that they can't wait to read. My Waiting on Wednesday pick this week is... Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood Release Date: October 11, 2016 From Amazon: William Shakespeare's The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed Felix is at … Continue reading Waiting on Wednesday: Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
