Book Reviews for Book Lovers and more!
Review: When She Woke by Hillary Jordan If you’ve been paying attention to my blog, then you already know that The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is my favorite book of all time. I’ve always loved dystopian novels and women’s rights are obviously always topics of concern for me. After …
Review: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo I have been seeing ads for the Book of the Month subscription for years. As an avid reader, I have always considered signing up, but since I was not reading as much as I’d like, I just hadn’t done it yet. But once I …
Review: Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory Christmas is my absolute favorite time of year. While this time of year is a difficult one for me since losing my mom, I find comfort in the holiday season and spending it with my family. I feel the most fulfilled when I’m surrounded …
Review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Margaret Atwood – The Testaments I have loved reading ever since I learned how. As a child, I loved to be read to by both of my late grandfathers, I read anything I could get my hands …
Review: The Dead Moms Club: A Memoir About Death, Grief, & Surviving the Mother of All Losses by Kate Spencer And the fifth and final rule of the Dead Moms Club? You’re totally allowed to side-eye all people who say, ‘At least she’s in a better place now.’ Screw them. …
Review: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert Like many of you, I discovered Elizabeth Gilbert through her New York Times Best-Seller Eat, Pray, Love (which was made into a fantastic movie starring Julia Roberts, it’s on Netflix, go watch it!). It’s no wonder that it spent 185 …
Review: The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, & Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their …
Review: Life Will Be the Death of Me…and You Too! by Chelsea Handler I discovered comedian Chelsea Handler’s late-night show Chelsea Lately during my senior year of high school. I immediately fell in love with the half hour of comedy filled interviews and panel guests she included every night. One …
My name is Lea and I am a 30-year-old living in northern California with a lifelong love for books. In college I majored in English literature & sociology with a minor in gender studies. But even with this liberal arts background, I somehow ended up in an unexpected career in …