This Tender Land (Book Review)
This is excellent fiction that will make you grateful for the home you have.
This is excellent fiction that will make you grateful for the home you have.
This novel is a reimagining of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty in 12th century China, who in this telling, is a girl disguised as a man, married to a woman.
I think it is best to go into this book knowing little and patiently watch it unravel as it does.
Make good choices and appreciate with full mindfulness the time you have with those you love.
This book strikes just the right note for my taste in a good mystery read.
This is genre-bending reading, part memoir, part biography of David Star Jordan, part expose and social commentary, part existential philosophy by an atheist searching for the meaning of life in a world filled with entropy.
This book is delicately straightforward, about ordinary life in an earlier time, closely observed in copious detail.
Read this only if you want a rollercoaster of feelings, boomeranging back and forth between heartbreak and hope.
This book of poetry includes twelve worldwide interfaith voices spanning the years from 717 and 1691.
I really liked this new book (just out in July 2022), although it started slow and took a long time ramping up.
This was a meandering but engaging multigenerational family saga spanning four generations on an island off Sicily.
So far, I’ve already completed 35 of my goal of 52 for the year. Right now, I am simultaneously reading nine more. This is where I am for those that are curious or need ideas:
Marcellus, an octopus, is one of the main characters in this charming novel, and he he steals the show in this satisfying read.
This fresh, wonderful coming of age story is about a teen about to age out of the foster care system.
I was happy to read this and delighted to find out how it ended. Especially if you are a woman, you may feel the same way.
This is written by a female Zen priest about the metaphors for life that she’s gleaned from her Japanese garden.
This book is a powerful rendition of what it felt like to be black in America during the pandemic and the violence that spawned the Black Lives Matters movement.