I’m away this week, escaping the craziness of the world with my man, inhaling the ocean air and all the peace and beauty that comes with it. So my book recommendation will have to wait until next Friday but be sure to come back then because the novel I’m going to suggest is genuinely Ah-mazing….

There are things I want to tell you about this book. Juicy moments of spine tingling fun. But I don’t want to spoil it. Suffice to say, if you’re a fan of my Sophie books, you’ll enjoy Elly Griffiths‘ The Stranger Diaries. Griffiths begins with an excerpt from a short story by gothic writer R….

Last week I wrote about a book that was designed to give you a much needed escape from reality. A book that’s intended to entertain rather than change your world view. Yale professor, Greg Grandin‘s The End of Myth is the opposite of that. Grandin takes his readers through the history of American expansionism to…

So last Friday I was in the middle of moving from one house to another and I’m afraid I missed posting a book review. But I’m back and while still in the midst of moving chaos and seeing Delta cases surging all over the place, I thought it might be nice to review a little…

I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I picked up this book. I thought it would be a piece of light escapism. A little sci-fi horror with a dollop of humor. I did not expect to be absolutely captivated. I didn’t expect that this would be the book that would make…

What do you do when the person who defines you forgets you? It’s a question posed by Avni Doshi‘s excellent novel, Burnt Sugar. Tara’s genuine love, frequent neglect and sporadic whims have shaped her daughter, Antara. Even as an adult, everything Antara does is in some way a response to her mother. So when Tara…