Jerusalem as a Second Language by Rochelle Distelheim - A really wonderful book exploring what it means to find yourself in a new place. ...

  Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert - a sweet and charming romance novel about a young woman with a chronic illness who is trying to...

  The Every by Dave Eggers - I couldn't put this down and I absolutely hated it. It's basically the story of our lives with compute...

The books just keep coming, people, and we'll never catch up. There are always more books to read than hours in the day and I know every...

The Best Place on Earth by Ayelet Tsabari - I loved this short story collection, all about mizrahi Jews, mostly Yemeni. It was beautifully ...

  The Book of Jeremiah by Julie Zuckerman - I really liked this book of linked short stories about a guy named Jeremiah - and I think the b...

  Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro  - what is humanity? what does it mean to love? This is a lyrical book that explores those questions. ...

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune  - I really loved this story, which felt both real and allegorical all at the same time. What a be...

I'm sure you're wondering where my drawings went - just ran out of time this month! How To Disappear Completely by Ali Standish - a...

  A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum  - Powerful story about generations of Arab women living in America. It was very difficult to read, and to i...

The Girl from Berlin by Ronald Balson - okay, I've done it! I've read all the books so-far in this series. A tiny bit formualaic ...

So...here's June's books. I'm halfway through the year and WOW have there been a lot of great things to read so far this year...

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth - how is it that I have never read this one before? Perhaps I'm not the biggest Philip Roth ...

(I can't decide if these lists should be in order or in reverse order...and does it matter? Sometimes I find myself in an interestin...

Have you noticed that the world feels topsy-turvy? (that was a joke) It's been hard to focus and I feel like I'm working around ...

This month's reading...I'm trying to keep up with short reviews this year. So far, 2 months in a row seems like it might be a tre...

I thought I'd give it a try to write short reviews as I go this year....let's see how well I can keep up! The First Mrs. Rothsc...