Book Ramblings from a Lifelong Bookworm

My Rating: 4 stars Tom Hanks is one of my favorite (Hollywood) celebrities so of course, when I first found out about his short story coll...

My Rating:  3.5 stars This was an interesting collection of 15 short stories by Alexandra Chang, whose previous novel  Days of Distraction  ...

My Rating:  3.5 stars Short story collections can be a bit of a hit or miss for me.  One reason is because I need stories to have some type...

My Rating: 4 stars I read Erica Bauermeister's previous novel  The Scent Keeper  a couple years ago and absolutely adored that book.  Tw...

My Rating:  3.5 stars While I liked this short story collection overall, the problem I had with it was similar to what I usually experience...

My Rating:   3.5 stars Last One Out Shut Off the Lights  is an interesting collection of short stories, all set in Louisiana, and featuring ...

My Rating: 4 stars Those familiar with my reading tastes have probably heard me say this way too many times:  I'm not usually a huge fan...

 My Rating: 4 stars With her debut short story collection  Land of Big Numbers , Te-Ping Chen brings us an insightful and thought-provoking...

My Rating: 5 stars I'm usually not a huge fan of short story collections and when it comes to books related to politics, I try to steer ...

My Rating: 4 stars   Two years ago, I read Vanessa Hua’s debut novel A River of Stars , which presented a realistic take on the Ch...

My Rating: 4 stars In this sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning  Olive Kitteridge , we once again get to revisit the town of Crosby...

  My Rating: 4 stars I recently got approved for an ARC of Elizabeth Strout’s latest work Olive, Again , which is the sequel to her ...

My Rating:  4 stars   I’m usually not a huge fan of short story collections, mainly because I don’t like the “incomplete” nature o...