Showing posts with label own TBR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label own TBR. Show all posts
Friday, July 3, 2026

Review: Five (by Ilona Bannister)

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My Rating: 4 stars This book was wild and honestly unlike anything I’ve read before!   From the first page, we already know that one of th...
Sunday, June 28, 2026

Review: The Land and Its People (by David Sedaris)

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My Rating: 4 stars The Land and Its People is David Sedaris’s newest essay collection, published just last month, and the second collecti...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

Review: Whistler (by Ann Patchett)

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My Rating: 5 stars As an Ann Patchett fangirl, I will read anything she writes and while I’m not a completist of her works (yet), reading ...
Saturday, June 6, 2026

Review: The Fine Art of Lying (by Alexandra Andrews)

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My Rating: 3 stars The Fine Art of Lying is Alexandra Andrews’s highly anticipated sophomore novel, coming 5 years after her debut Who is...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Review: The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli (by Karina Yan Glaser)

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My Rating: 5 stars Wow!   This beautifully written middle grade novel absolutely blew me away!   I honestly can’t remember the last time I...
Saturday, May 23, 2026

Review: Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor (by Anna Qu)

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My Rating: 3.5 stars As I continue my new-found audio book journey, I’ve been focusing on listening to memoirs and other non-fiction works...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Review: The Things We Never Say (by Elizabeth Strout)

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My Rating: 5 stars I didn’t think that I could love another Elizabeth Strout character as much as I love Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton bu...
Friday, May 15, 2026

Review: Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me (by Glory Edim)

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My Rating: 4 stars I enjoyed this memoir from the founder of the Well-Read Black Girl book club, Glory Edim, where she discusses the books...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

Review: A Living Remedy (by Nicole Chung)

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My Rating: 4.5 stars Nicole Chung’s second memoir is a poignant love letter of sorts to her parents, both of whom pass away less than one ...
Friday, April 24, 2026

Review: Charlotte's Web (by E.B. White)

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My Rating: 5 “radiant” stars! I’ve been feeling a bit nostalgic recently, so I decided to go back and revisit a childhood favorite: E.B. W...
Saturday, April 4, 2026

Review: Calypso (by David Sedaris)

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My Rating: 3.5 stars I’ve been feeling a bit of overwhelm lately looking at my ridiculously long TBR list, which I keep adding books to fa...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

Review: One Jump At A Time: My Story (by Nathan Chen)

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My Rating: 3.5 stars As a long-time figure skating fan, I always look forward to watching the skating events at the Winter Olympics, even ...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

Review: No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality (by Michael J. Fox)

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My Rating: 5 stars With his iconic roles in television (Family Ties, Spin City) and film (Back to the Future, Teen Wolf, etc.), Michael J....
Monday, February 16, 2026

Review: My Husband's Wife (by Alice Feeney)

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My Rating: 4 stars  It is not lost on me that we are almost halfway through the month of February and so far, I have only finished 1 book (c...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Review: From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home (by Tembi Locke)

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My Rating: 5 stars  I put Tembi Locke’s memoir From Scratch on my TBR several years ago after a friend recommended it to me as one of the m...
Saturday, December 27, 2025

Review: How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents (by Jimmy O. Yang)

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My Rating: 5 stars Prior to Crazy Rich Asians , I actually had never heard of Jimmy O. Yang, but after watching and loving that movie, I s...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

Review: Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane (by Devoney Looser)

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My Rating:  4 stars My celebration of Jane Austen’s 250 th birthday continues with more Austen-centered books.   This time around, I chos...