Category: Book Review

Book Review: Clean

Clean: The New Science of Skin by James Hamblin The author of this book is a doctor who became famous for appearing in an article in which he admitted to not showering, and when he does shower, eschewing soap. I was intrigued by the premise and not quite sure what to expect. I love pop …

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Book Review: We Could be Heroes

We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen Zoe Wong and Jamie Sorenson both have psychic powers, but Zoe uses hers to beat up bad guys in her spare time while Jamie robs banks. The catch is that neither of them have any memories from before two years earlier. When they meet up at a memory …

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Book Review: We Are All the Same in the Dark

We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin On the surface, this book is a standard police procedural, but a few unusual twists and good writing make it memorable. It takes place in a small Texas town, depicted exactingly in its hot, backwards, narrow minded glory. Odette is a young cop, the …

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Book Review: Last Girl Ghost

Last Girl Ghosted by Lisa Unger In the grand tradition of “books with the word ‘girl’ in the title” this is a psychological thriller centered around independent but vulnerable women and mysterious dangerous men. Wren is young, beautiful, and wealthy, living in a Brooklyn brownstone and writing a popular advice column called “Dear Birdie.” Since …

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Book Review: What Moves the Dead

T. Kingfisher is one of my go-to authors these days, so I snapped this one up even though it’s much shorter than her other works. The other reviewers said it’s a retelling of the Poe story “the Fall of the House of Usher,” a work I had not read. I read the spark notes for …

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