Month: August 2025
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Book Review: Singing Through Fire by Lara Silverman
My heart has been filled with so many emotions by this memoir. Lara Silverman takes the reader on a raw and heartfelt journey through not only her own health crisis, but that of her husband, Matthew Silverman. It’s not the typical love story you tend to come across in books, which for me, made it…
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Book Review: Your Silence Was Never Empty by Rabih Moussan
More than prose alone, this poetry collection presents as a stream of consciousness — the rawest, most relatable stream of thoughts you can possibly imagine. It can also be considered a form of self-help through the encouragement that builds from beginning to end…
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Book Review: The Guest in Room 120 by Sara Ackerman
Inspired by the true story of Jane Stanford, The Guest in Room 120 follows two timelines. In 1905, Iliahi Baldwin, a hotel employee, kept journal entries discussing Jane Stanford’s time at the Moana. In 2005, Zoe Finch attends a writing conference at the same hotel and ends up in the same room in which Jane Stanford had…
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Book Review: Lava by E.B. Roshan
E.B. Roshan has done it again! I’ve probably said this before, but I now have a new favorite comic by her…
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Book Review: The Emperor, The Cross, and the Goat by Eliade Moldovan
A couple of years ago, I read Helena by Evelyn Waugh, which is another book that draws from the time of Emperor Constantine. When I saw that The Emperor, The Cross, and the Goat was also set in this era, I was immediately intrigued…
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Book Review: Fight Forever by J.J. McGee
Full disclosure: I know absolutely nothing about wrestling aside from whatever one of my best friends has shared with me. This same friend has a friend, and that friend wrote this book. So, of course, I’m going to have a secondhand-fangirl moment and have a great time learning about one of my friend’s favorite people…
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Book Review: The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
I knew I was gambling with this book because I didn’t love The Wishing Game even though I really wanted to. I was hopeful when I saw that The Lost Story is supposedly inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia, but I didn’t see it aside from a second realm, and that’s a massive stretch if we’re looking for comparison…
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Book Review: Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
Thankfully, I was warned that this book treads into darker topics/depictions than what you would normally find in a romcom. Even with this warning, I was surprised by just how sad it became. I don’t mind reading sad books, but for someone looking for a pick-me-up, this isn’t going to be it…
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Book Review: I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You by Miranda Hart
Several years ago, I watched Miranda Hart’s sitcom from beginning to end and enjoyed it so much, but this is actually the first of her books that I’ve read. Like many, I’m sure, I was intrigued by the title and curious to know what she’s been up to in the last several years…
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Book Review: My Friends by Fredrik Backman
How do I even begin talking about my experience reading this book? How am I going to sum up all of my thoughts and feelings in a few short paragraphs? All while avoiding spoilers!…