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Continue reading →: Same As It Ever Was is Not Big on the Suburban American Dream
Authored by Claire Lombardo; Published June 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ For all that the American dream is depicted as a suburban home with a white picket fence, it seems like there are plenty of women (plenty of fictional women?) who have not only eschewed this vision, but cringe at the thought.…
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Continue reading →: Good Dirt Spans American History
Authored by Charmaine Wilkerson; Published January 2025; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Good Dirt was beautiful: the story of a special woman—or perhaps really about a special jar?—and how it was molded through decades, even centuries of American history. Good Dirt is the story of Ebony Freeman and her family,…
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Continue reading →: The Christmas Bookshop Allows You to Embrace Your Most Bookish Dreams
Authored by Jenny Colgan; Published 2011; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ If ever I have read a book designed for book lovers, The Christmas Bookshop is it. Yes, it is technically a romance, but it feels more like a narrative cover to allow all of us to live vicariously through the…
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Continue reading →: City of Night Birds is Not Just About Ballet
Authored by Juhea Kim; Published November 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ City of Night Birds brought back stinging memories of brutal ballet rehearsals and merciless coaches. But the novel is about more than dance, about even more than art. In City of Night Birds, we follow the rise and fall…
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Continue reading →: Eleanor of Avignon is a Pandemic Hero
Authored by Elizabeth DeLozier; Published September 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ The bravery of a person who feels called to heal in the midst of a pandemic is an inspiration—it was just as true in COVID-19 as it was in the Black Plague. Eleanor of Avignon is a depiction…
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Continue reading →: The Stars are Fire Features a Highly Capable Heroine
Authored by Anita Shreve; Published in 2017; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Yet another novel in which a woman is treated terribly by a man. The Stars are Fire shouldn’t be reduced to such a description—not with the woman in question being such a capable and independent protagonist—but I would…
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Continue reading →: Husbands & Lovers is Compelling, if Disjointed
Authored by Beatriz Williams; Published June 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The style in which Husbands & Lovers is written is popular now: two intertwining narratives, set decades apart. But I’m not sure I’ve read a novel where the two narratives are quite so separate, even if they are…
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Continue reading →: This Strange Eventful History Exhibits the Sweep of Twentieth Century History
Authored by Claire Messud; Published May 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ What makes for a happy family? In This Strange Eventful History, a blissful marriage seems to turn into nothing but misery in just a generation—and it’s difficult to place the blame. This Strange Eventful History follows the Cassar…
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Continue reading →: The Women in the Castle Lends a New Perspective on National Regret
Authored by Jessica Shattuck; Published in 2017; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ The Women in the Castle may be the first historical fiction novel I’ve read centered around privileged women in Germany during the Second World War and how they picked up the pieces after the war. It was not…
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Continue reading →: Margo’s Got Money Troubles is Uniquely Excellent
Authored by Rufi Thorpe; Published June 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ I have never read a novel quite like Margo’s Got Money Troubles. It has a zany air, but at its heart is a heartfelt plea for empathy: for single mothers, for women who engage in sex-related professions, for humanity.…
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