New Nigeria County by Clare Brown (book review)
Get your copy here! New Nigeria is a good, clean, All-American town. The husbands are smiling and handsome, the wives are strong, rich, and powerful, and Nat Turner High is the best public school in the state. Yet, the citizens of this idyllic community find themselves in a rapidly changing [...]
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 [...]