Women Talking by Miriam Toews (book review)
Get your copy here! One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish [...]
Authentically Izzy by Pepper Basham (book review)
Get your copy here! “Dear Izzy—I feel certain there’s a book-loving man living relatively nearby waiting to speak bookish to you ’til death do you part. You just haven’t met yet.” Izzy Edgewood is a wannabe bookstore owner, quote queen, and Lord of the Rings nerd who has been waiting [...]
Reading Recommendations from Michelle Bengtson
I have always loved books. Growing up we didn’t have much money, but books from the library took me to faraway places. As a child, my favorite picture book was Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. He had such a way with words, and often made me laugh at [...]
Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore (book review)
Get your copy here! Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise—a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as a [...]
The Night Garden by Lisa Van Allen (book review)
Get your copy here! Nestled in the bucolic town of Green Valley in upstate New York, the Pennywort farm appears ordinary, yet at its center lies something remarkable: a wild maze of colorful gardens that reaches beyond the imagination. Local legend says that a visitor can gain answers to life’s [...]