Books

The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty was a book club pick. I didn’t want to read it because a co-worker told me what Secret was. I wasn’t planning on reading it, just showing up at the club meeting for the camaraderie and to pick next month’s book. I had gone through the motions of putting […]

A Fighting Chance by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren was a book club pick. In always like when the author is the narrator of the audiobook because only s/he can really give emphasis where it is truly intended. There was an earnestness, an authenticity that engaged me to Warren herself. A Fighting Chance is an autobiographical

I was wary when my 2nd book club chose Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua. I remember the controversy it created when published and I wasn’t sure I wanted that karma in my life. Chua documents what it was like to apply Chinese Parenting to her daughters. I was horrified by her

A good zombie tale. That’s what I needed. In this case, zombies are called hungries because they just want to EAT. The zombie condition was caused by a naturally existing fungus Ophiocordyceps. The sci-fi aspect is that this ant-infecting fungus somehow leaps to create a human condition. It wasn’t revealed to the reader that the

Another long car drive, another search for anything to listen to on the trip. I was willing to listen to the last Jane Austen novel on my list to read (Northhanger Abbey) but it was not available. I picked something Austen adjacent. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler is a fantasy,