The Immortals by Jordanna Max Brodsky MANHATTAN HAS MANY SECRETS. SOME ARE OLDER THAN THE CITY ITSELF. Manhattan. The city sleeps. Selene DiSilva walks her dog along the banks of the Hudson. She is alone-just the way she likes it. She doesn’t believe in friends, and she doesn’t speak to… Read more »
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs. A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar… Read more »
I wanna talk about books. Do you want to talk about books, too? With no assigned books to read, no deadlines, no rushing to skim through a book you’re hating just because that’s what your book club is reading this month? Then we have the book club for you. The… Read more »
Fellside by M. R. Carey The unmissable and highly anticipated new literary thriller from the author of the international phenomenon The Girl With All the Gifts. Fellside is a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors. It’s not the kind of place you’d want to end up…. Read more »
I’ve been in a book slump for… jeez, several years now. I used to read a hundred books a year, but after I finished grad school, that tapered off to under twenty in a year, sometimes less. I just couldn’t find anything that caught my attention enough to make me want… Read more »
I honestly couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve read the Harry Potter books. For at least the first four, I’ve read them so much that I lost count around the 20 mark. And yet here I am, reading the series once again. Some people will read a book once… Read more »
There’s a great post today on Smart Bitches Trashy Books about one of my absolute least favorite tropes in romance novels: slut shaming. Guest writer Linda eloquently rants about the trope, which is sadly common in a lot of romances, and I found myself nodding along and emphatically punching the… Read more »
Chimera by Mira Grant The final book in Mira Grant’s terrifying Parasitology trilogy. The outbreak has spread, tearing apart the foundations of society, as implanted tapeworms have turned their human hosts into a seemingly mindless mob. Sal and her family are trapped between bad and worse, and must find a… Read more »
Breakups mostly suck, particularly if you don’t see it coming ahead of time. They can even suck when you’re the one who decides it’s time to end it. It can also be a relief, but there’s always some sort of pain involved, whether it’s sadness about your lost relationship or… Read more »
Brother by Ania Ahlborn From the bestselling horror author of “Within These Walls” and “The Bird Eater “comes a brand-new novel of terror that follows a teenager determined to break from his family’s unconventional–and deeply disturbing–traditions. Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands a crooked farmhouse miles from any road…. Read more »
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