Tag: Reading

  • What I Read the Rest of 2016

    My reading updates have been rather sporadic this year as I took the summer off from blogging… and then most of the fall and winter, too. The combination of having no internet connection + building a house + incubating a baby turned out to be too much to handle and still make space for writing…

  • 5 Books I Crave Every Fall

      Fall is my favorite. I know that everyone says that these days, with their Pumpkin Spice Lattes and Apple Orchard runs, but I have loved fall since grade school. The crisp air and changing colors have always captivated me. I love watching the leaves fall away, encouraging us to focus on what is left…

  • Fiction in Review: Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

    Fiction in Review: Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

    I almost always love a historical novel set during World War II, and Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave was no exception. The novel focuses on a group of young people, in their early- to mid-twenties in London: Mary, an affluent eighteen-year-old who wants to do anything her parents won’t approve of; Tom, a school…