How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
I read this book when it came out in 2019, and I took my time with it in a way I usually don’t when reading. I remember reading it in…
Qwirkle
Qwirkle is a fun, low-stakes board game. It's straightforward: players create rows of shapes and colors, and games typically last around thirty minutes. I have played the game with children…
The Echo Wife
This book bridges two eminently popular genres: thrillers and science fiction. It follows Evelyn, an accomplished scientist who learns that her husband has used her research to create a clone…
The Bookman’s Tale: A Novel of Obsession
An antiquarian bookseller is captivated by a historic portrait whose subject has a striking resemblance to his lost love. The novel follows our bookseller as he explores time and the…
The Bone Season
This dystopian fantasy is set in London in 2059, where clairvoyants live hiding in plain sight and are both hunted and persecuted. Our protagonist, Paige Mahoney, is captured and sent…
Sinners
Sinners is a sophisticated Jim Crow Era Horror Movie, that not only uses symbolism thru jazz music but also thru the depiction of societal fear in relation to race and…
Assistant to the Villain
Evie is a "sunny" executive assistant who works for her very grumpy boss "The Villain." She has to help the boss with his evil office duties like mayhem and terror…
The Oxford Children’s Book of Science
This book is great for tweens and teens. The pictures draw you in and the topics are rich and intriguing.
The Love of My Afterlife
When Delphie chokes on a microwaveable burger alone in her apartment, she wakes up in the afterlife with nothing to show for her time on earth aside from the "Shine…
Ordinary Love
We meet Emily on the precipice of life-altering change after the final straw in her marriage leads her to separate herself and her two children from her husband, whose short…