I’m here to tell you about my favorite 2025 book I’ve read this year: Gary Shteyngart’s Vera, or Faith. In this book
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I’m here to tell you about my favorite 2025 book I’ve read this year: Gary Shteyngart’s Vera, or Faith. In this book review of Vera, or Faith, I’m going to tell you
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Your easy-to-use book review format and why it works! Unsure how to structure your book review? Look no further. I’m sharing with you my tried-and-true template for crafting a substantive, helpful book
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Fall is definitely my favorite season. I live for the crisp, cool days. I love the gorgeous firebird spectrum of leaf colors. From my office window, I can see them dazzling the
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I picked up The Club (2019), the debut novel by Der Spiegel author Takis Würger on the strength of Megan Abbot’s book blurb: “Wildly entertaining.” And I’m glad I gave this novel
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Over the years, I’ve steadily been working my way through prolific author Neil Gaiman’s publications, recommending them here on the blog and just about everywhere. The more I’ve read by him, the
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So many people I know who love graphic novels describe being able to finish them in one sitting as part of their appeal. I like that feature, too, which is why I
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There is a moment during my family’s Thanksgiving dinner where we go around the table and identify something we are grateful for in our lives. However hokey, however contrived this little tradition
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I have never really been a nonfiction person. Part of it is, I just love fiction. I’m fascinated by storytelling, dramatic structure, conflict, tension, and the hero’s journey. Real life, it’s always
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It seems impossible to write a book review of Charles Burns’ Black Hole, a graphic novel compendium of a comics series from 1995-2005. While I was reading the novel, I fluctuated between
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