The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
Rating: ★★★★ The Shock of the Fall is a beautiful novel about grief, guilt, and a young man's decent into mental illness. I related to...
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Rating: ★★★★★ A brief preface: I am a privileged white woman, but I seek to empathize with and understand those who aren't born with the...
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
Rating: ★★★★ Marcelo in the Real World is the story of a young man with Asperger's syndrome being thrust into the real world for the...
Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
Rating: ★★★★★ Stop everything, EVERYTHING you are doing right now and start reading this book! Everything Everything has been on my TBR...
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Rating: ★★★★ Agatha Christie is without question the queen of mystery. I used to read a lot of Agatha Christie mysteries in Junior High,...
Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
Rating: ★★★★ Homer's Odyssey is a charming memoir about life with a remarkable cat named Homer, and, oh yeah, he's blind. I have to admit...
Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
Rating: ★★★★ I absolutely tore through Ugly Love. The writing leads smoothly from sentence to sentence and paragraph to paragraph. The...
Best of 2016
2016 has been a life changing year for me. I discovered my love of reading. I read 88 books this year, a number I am incredibly proud of....
Death by Darjeeling by Laura Childs
Rating: ★★★ Death by Darjeeling is the first in a series called A Tea Shop Mystery by Laura Childs. Childs definitely focuses on creating...
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
Rating: ★★★★★ Furiously Happy is absolutely the funniest book I've read in 2016. It's also the first auto-biography I've read in 2016. I...
