06
May
Ivy and Bean Make the Rules
Annie Barrows · ★★★★
Another cheerful entry in the series. This one has Ivy and Bean balancing a familiar yearning to grow
book-review
25
Apr
Provinces of Night
William Gay · ★★★★★
William Gay's Provinces of Night is built on a proposition about being human: how we string
4 min read
16
Apr
Ivy and Bean: No News Is Good News
Annie Barrows · ★★★
Not my favorite of the Ivy + Bean books but my daughter is now fully invested in the series
1 min read
09
Apr
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar · ★★★★
Martyr! is a novel with a great conceit and prose that serves its story well during stable moments
1 min read
26
Mar
Reckless in Texas (Texas Rodeo, #1)
Kari Lynn Dell
I'm not giving this one a star rating because it is so unlike anything I&
1 min read
26
Mar
Ivy and Bean: What's the Big Idea?
Annie Barrows · ★★★★
I'm still working through the series with my daughter and this one is written in a
1 min read
26
Mar
The Forgotten Door
Alexander Key · ★★★★
I'm too young to have any nostalgia for this one. In fact, I never knew it
1 min read
16
Mar
The First Four Books of Poems
W.S. Merwin · ★★★
I guess I just wanted to start at the beginning. What I found is an understandably uneven
2 min read
16
Mar
The Trees
Percival Everett · ★★★★★
Prompted by the film American Fiction, which I really enjoyed, I decided to pick up an Everett book
1 min read
16
Mar
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol · ★★★★★
I finally got a chance to find out why Gogol's work is called a masterpiece. There&