Homemade Lemon Cake

Every once in awhile it is good to be reminded that in fact the fate of women has improved over time. This book introduces the reader to a ...

This is a themed book where something happens that I would never ever do. Which is what Annie, the protagonist, thought as well. When the A...

This has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, which is how I came to read it. It is part magical realism, part a commentary on the persist...

This author writes beautifully and his books are quite varied. This one is also set in New England, like Northwoods, but it has a far ligh...

I read this to fulfill a Goodreads summer challenge, but I have read the rest of this series and did not realize there was a new installmen...

One of my kids gave me the American Library Association's book of 52 books that are targeted by book banning groups, and this book is o...

Well, this one left me thinking that I didn't initially know what to think about it. Natalie Heller Mills builds a multi-million-strong...

I read this for one of the reading badges in a Goodreads challenge--I read incessantly but somehow two of the 12 summer badges did not have...

This book, when I read it as a kid, made it seem possible to be independent, brainy, and comfortable with all that. The author illustrated...

Yes, I finished the eighth Bridgerton novels, and at the end this one, all Bridgerton offspring are married! The challenge in a series of ...

I read this debut novel because it was recently longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize. The author is young, Irish, and interestingly, owns a...

Dominion means supreme authority, sovereign power, or complete control over something, in this case it is the dominion of men over women--i...

I think this book, which is composed in an unusual manner, benefits greatly from the recent release of Christopher Nolan's movie retell...

I finished this book a couple of days ago and am still not sure what I think of it. I read several reviews and there is a sense that this ...

Someone asked me recently where I get ideas for the books that I read, and I gave what was probably too long an answer for what the asker w...

The author's second book was worth the wait. It is also set in Western Australia and is as steeped in moral ambiguity as her first. It...

I am going to have to stop saying that I don't much read romance novels because here I am, seven deep in the Bridgerton novels, and I a...

This is an unusual book. It is part memoir, part fiction, part essay and the lines between them are blurry at best. The author says that ...

This is a cautionary tale of what not to do as a parent. The prodigal son, 22-year-old gay Harris islander John-Calum Macleod, or Cal, re...

These books are on the level of a murder mystery for me--only nobody dies and there is almost always a happy ending--so while the murder my...