I know I’m late to the game on this one. About eight years late, in fact. But no new, trending novel has compelled me to write a review as strongly as this one has. As I read Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, one word kept repeating itself in my brain: Perspective. We all need […]

As I sit down to write a review of Emily Giffin’s The One and Only, I’m realizing how conflicted I feel about it. Let me start with a brief synopsis. The story follows 33-year-old Shea Rigsby from Walker, a small town in Texas. The town takes a Friday Night Lights-esque approach to football – they live, eat, and […]

I don’t even remember where I heard about Ashley Prentice Norton’s The Chocolate Money. But when I went on Amazon to see what kind of feedback it had gotten, one quote stuck out to me in particular: “The Chocolate Money is Mommie Dearest, Prep, and Fifty Shades of Gray all rolled into one compulsively readable book.” I was dying […]

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a sucker for novels about excess – money, power, caloric intake, you name it. Throw in prep school kids, twenty-something debauchery, and a European destination, and I’m sold. Stan Parish’s novel Down the Shore first came to my attention through a blurb in Cosmopolitan. Definitely a sign of quality literature, I know. I […]

I constantly dream of packing up and moving to Europe. (Maybe not the packing part, actually, considering one of my biggest anxieties about said dream is how I would transport all of my clothes.) During the winter I downloaded Duolingo, an app to help me relearn the French that I’ve forgotten since my high school days. […]

“If she packaged the perfect Facebook life, maybe she would start to believe it herself.” – Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies If you’re a diehard Real Housewives fan like I am, this book by Liane Moriarty is the perfect read. Shows and books about the absurdly wealthy (and absurdly messed up) in suburban areas are […]