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I feel rather ambivalent about my reading of Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. Having read, and enjoyed, Ng’s debut novel Everything...

Sing, Unburied, Sing is Jesmyn Ward's senior novel. While I've had her Hurricane Katrina-related Salvage the Bones on my to-read list for...

It was a plodding journey at times, but I made it through the entirety of Main Street by Sinclair Lewis. While this was a required text...

A baby boy is born in the darkness of a basement. As he grows up, he learns that there was a horrific fire that left his grandmother,...

As an ardent fan of murder mysteries, harboring an obsession for true crime TV shows (Snapped, Forensic Files, The First 48, etc.), I was...

Angela Davis has been an inmate at Brunesfield, a juvenile detention facility, for three years. She’s a tough cookie who has led a hard...

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan was an entertaining read, full of mystery and good humor. The best part is,...

I have my mom to thank for my love of letter-writing. As a child, anytime I would receive a gift, she’d sit me down at the kitchen table...

“Wow!” Then, “What?” Then, “Hmm. What did I just read?” These were my initial reactions upon finishing Suicide Notes from Beautiful...

The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler promises dark family secrets, magic, and a mysterious book. Also, the main character is a...

Allie's big sister, Leah, is dead. She didn't die in a car accident or from some horrible, incurable disease. No, instead, Leah committed...

Robin is a talented, passionate high school musician, working at the Grape County Dairy diner during summer break to save money towards a...

I believe The Chaos of Stars was my "Waiting on Wednesday" pick a long time back, when I was still operating BlookGirl. The first thing...

Left for dead during a deadly takeover by an evil jinni caste and then sold as a slave to a human through the dark caravan, Nalia is not...

The World Turtle exists in several cultures, namely the Mayan and Hindu cultures. The idea is that the world rests on the back of a...