This line, from Erica Bauermeister’s recent novel No Two Persons, (which I loved) landed on me like an explosion. Every day since October 7, bombs, gunfire, and their terrifying aftermath…
Secrets are on my mind lately. Last month, an author contacted to write a profile for her debut novel. Her book (At the Seams, 2023) explores the secrets behind, and…
I don’t think of myself as a person who makes friends easily. I don’t like parties or crowds. I usually turn away from, instead of towards, people I don’t know.…
Rachel Linden’s The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie is the type of guilty pleasure I yearn for after reading heavy historical or literary fiction. Think This Tender Land, The Great…
The main character in Emma Straub's This Time Tomorrow, goes to sleep on the eve of her 40th birthday and wakes up as her sixteen-year-old self in the 1990’s. As…
This simple line from Matthew Quick’s We Are the Light (2022) struck me as a short, but powerful string of words. It made me think about what my husband often…
After celebrating my twenty-third wedding anniversary this past January, this great line from Sonali Dev’s hilarious and heartfelt novel, The Vibrant Years, painted a huge smile of understanding on my…
This great line, from Sara Nović’s True Biz, intrigued me. The author goes on to assert that being motherless was “primal, the archetype for human suffering, like losing the North…
I highlighted this line in The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley because it made me laugh. It was a sarcastic jab at one of the characters in the book portrayed…
It’s been almost two months since I read this great line, formed in the mind of an octopus (yes, an octopus), from Shelby Van Pelt’s unique, emotional, and inspiring novel,…