book reviews

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Book Review: The Shadows

Book Review: The Sentence is Death

Book Review: The Midnight Library

Book Review: The Evening and the Morning

Book Review: His and Hers

Book review: The Making of Us

Book Review: The Whisper Man

Book Review: Mr. Nobody

Book Review: The House We Grew Up In

Book Review: Kindred

Book Review: The Family Upstairs

Book Review: Rebecca

Book Review: The Lying Game

Book Review: Three novels by Ruth Ware

Book review: Behind Her Eyes

Book review: We Need to Talk About Kevin

Book review: I Found You

Favorite books I read in 2018

Book review: The Last Mrs. Parrish

Book review: The Ruin

Book review: I'll Be Gone in the Dark

Book review: The Lady in the Tower

Book review: Burntown

Book review: Frankenstein

Book review: Magpie Murders

Book review: The Word is Murder

Book Review: Lying in Wait

Book Review: The Secrets She Keeps

Book Review: The Anatomy of Dreams

Book Review: Something in the Water

Book Review: The Immortalists

Book Review: Sometimes I Lie

Book Review: A Faint Cold Fear

Book Review: Astonish Me

Book Review: 12 Rules for Life

Book Review: The Taming of the Queen

Book Review: The Wife Between Us

Book Review: Blindsighted

Book Review: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Book Review: Pretty Girls

Book Review: The Story of Reality

Book Review: The French Girl

Book Review: Homegoing

Book Review: The Trespasser

Book Review: Parable of the Sower

Book Review: Armada

Book Review: Artemis

Book Review: The Dinner

Book Review: Killman Creek

Book Review: Fates and Furies

Book Review: Stillhouse Lake

Book Review: There Will Be Stars

Book Review: The Man Who Smiled

Five Favorite Books I Read in 2017

Book Review: Faceless Killers

Book Review: Island of Lost Girls

Book Review: A Column of Fire

Book review: The Child Finder

Book review: Ready Player One

Book Review: All the Missing Girls

Book Review: A Study in Charlotte

Book Review: The Black Banners

Book Review: Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal

Book Review: Hillbilly Elegy

Book Review: Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

Book Review: No Wonder They Call Him the Savior

Book Review: The Great Divorce

Book Review: Searching for Sunday

Book Review: Hidden Bodies

Book Review: Birdman

Book Review: The Good Girl

Book Review: Everything I Never Told You

Top Ten Favorite Books of 2016

Book Review: The Snow Child

Book Review: Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Book Review: The Night Sister

Book review: The Winter People

Book Review: The Forgotten Girls

Book Review: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Book Review: The Drop

Book Review: In a Dark, Dark Wood

Book Review: Her Fearful Symmetry

Book Review: This is where I leave you

Book Review: From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant

Book Review: Everything She Forgot

Book Review: Dietland

Book Review: The Devil of Nanking

Book Review: Cage of Stars

Book Review: The Little Friend

Book Review: Wonder

Book Review: The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance

Book Review: Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World

Book Review: Bel Canto

Book review: The Submission

Book Review: The Secret Place

Book Review: Broken Harbor

Book Review: Long Man

Book Review: The Likeness

Book Review: The Girl on the Train

Book Review: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Book review: The Mermaid Chair

Book Review: Heretics: The Creation of Christianity from the Gnostics to the Modern Church

Book Review: One Second After

Book Review: The Seven Storey Mountain

Book Review: Gilead

Book Review: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Book Review: You

Book Review: The Devil in the White City

Book Review: Between Shades of Gray

Book Review: The Secret History

Book Review: Hausfrau

Book Review: The Enchanted

Book Review: Station Eleven

Top Five Books of 2015

Book review: All the Light We Cannot See

Book Review: Night Film

Book review: Housekeeping

Book Review: Big Magic

Book Review: The Cuckoo's Calling

Book Review: Help for the Haunted

Book Review: The Martian

Book review: Gods in Alabama

Book Review: Wildwood

Book review: The Shock of the Fall

Book Review: Animal Farm

Book review: Rescue

Book Review: We Were Liars

Book Review: An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

Book Review: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Book review: The Art of Fielding

Book Review: Lucky

The Book Depository

Book Review: Pastrix

Book Review: The Light Between Oceans

Book Review: Riding Lessons by Sara Gruen

Book Review: A Moveable Feast

Book Review: And the Mountains Echoed

Book Review: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Book Review: Faithful Place by Tana French

Book Review: If Jack's in Love

Book Review: The Goldfinch

Book Review: The Heights

Book Review: The Signature of All Things

Book Review: The Senator's Wife

Book Review: The Night Circus

Book Review: The Husband's Secret

Book Review: A Good Hard Look

Book Review: The Circle

Book Review: The God of Animals

Book Reviews: The Longings of Wayward Girls and Help Thanks Wow

Book Reviews: Seventy-Seven Clocks and Dark Places

Book Review: The Patron Saint of Liars

I'm just like Wally Lamb.

Book Review: Nightwoods

Book Reviews: The Execution of Noa P. Singleton and American Sniper

Book Review: In the Woods by Tana French

Two days in Horrorstör

Edge of Eternity and the 50 Book Challenge

Book Review: Left Neglected

Conclusions on Gone Girl

Book Review: May We Be Forgiven

My ten most influential books

School update and a book review

My name is Jennie, and I’m a writer. I’m also a wife, an adoptive mother, a traveler, and a hopeful novelist. I dabble in photography and run when I need to think.

The original blog was created in 2005 to maintain regular contact with our birth families and extended family members. Over the last decade, it has been a powerful way to stay connected with them and keep those we love in the fold.

It is also a place where I sort out my feelings. Like Flannery O’Connor, I never know exactly what I think until I write it down.

Book Review: The Shadows
I picked up The Shadows by Alex North with no hesitation because I loved, loved, loved Whisper Man. It begins promising, and […]
Book Review: The Sentence is Death
This is the second in what I hope becomes a long series in which Anthony Horowitz, the author, writes himself into the […]
Book Review: The Midnight Library
At least once a year I read a book that I push on everyone like a crazy person. One time it was Eleanor Oliphant is […]

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