I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Mary Jane, the title character gets a summer job at a doctor’s home to babysit his daughter. She …
Tag: fiction
Book Review | The Echo Wife
In Sarah Gailey’s novel The Echo Wife, Evelyn Caldwell is a celebrated scientist who specializes in cloning research. Her life is turned upside down, however, when she learns that her husband Nathan has cheated on her—by using her research to create a clone of Evelyn and sleep with her instead. The messy divorce has just …
Book Review | The Liar’s Dictionary (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. This book was so odd, a word which here means (yes, I’m borrowing Lemony Snicket’s turn of phrase) unusual …
Book Review | Daisy Jones and the Six
Well, I liked this book about as much as I liked American Dirt. (I didn’t like American Dirt.) Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid tells the story of the titular band, specifically lead singers Daisy Jones and Billy Dunn, through their beginnings, their rise to fame, and their falling-out in the middle …
Book Review | Beach Read
Beach Read by Emily Henry tells the story of January Andrews, an author who is suffering from writer’s block. This is largely due to the fact that her father has recently died, and she has since learned that he had been unfaithful to her mother for years. She moves back to her father’s hometown to …
