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I will admit that this book started slowly for me, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to keep reading. But I persevered a little longer and was ric...

It’s 1984 in New York City’s East Village. AIDS has started ravaging communities all over the country, but NYC has been hit particularly ha...

Whoa, this was so freaking creepy! I’m definitely not going into any water that isn’t clear, that’s for certain. I’ve been such a fan of El...

I stumbled on this book the other night and while I hadn’t heard of it before, several other books the authors have written are on my TBR. ...

This was such a beautiful little book. Philippe Besson always writes books that evoke the complicated emotions of one’s teenage years, and ...

It’s 1977 in suburban Rochester, NY. A woman who has scandalized her neighborhood by getting divorced decides to buy her friends a copy of ...

“We were teenagers distracted by sex and pop music, movies and celebrity, lust and ephemera and our own neutral innocence.” In high schoo...

“To have freedom, there is always a fight. Sometimes you lose part of yourself. Sometimes you gain something altogether different from what...

Interestingly enough, this book (a rare foray into fiction by the award-winning author) is both about and not about cheesecake. It is more ...

How could I resist a book with a title like this? My thanks to Alcove Press and NetGalley for the advance copy! In 1989, Joe and his best...

Thanks so much to Scholastic and NetGalley for the advance copy of this book! This was a sweet and emotional read. In the summer of 1986,...

Thanks so much to Knopf and NetGalley for the advance copy of this book! What a powerful and emotional read this was. In 2008, I stumbled...

Powerful and moving, Cynthia Weiner’s debut novel captures the boredom and impatience that occurs in the summer before college. Inspired by...

What a fun romp this was!! Thanks so much to Get Red PR Books for the complimentary copy! It’s 2020 and teenage Tori is pretty dissatisfi...

Post-Thanksgiving and pre-holidays, here’s a healthy dollop of family dysfunction in book form! Rudy was a Holocaust survivor who travele...

What a fantastic book. Lynda Cohen Loigman has done it again!! Forced into retirement just before her 80th birthday, Augusta doesn’t know...

How much are our lives defined by the choices our families make? Are we doomed to follow the same paths or can we forge our own? These are ...

I’ve read two horror books in two months. Go me! TBH, I wasn’t thinking of reading this until I saw how much a Bookstagram friend raved abo...

“For some of us, there comes a moment when we realize that the object of our desire lies outside our known world, beyond our towns and fami...

At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Stabbed her father with a knife Took her mother's happy life "It wasn...