Category: June 2023

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

by: Robert Dugoni Goodreads description: Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered, buoyed by his mother’s devout faith, his […]

Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos

By: Nash Jenkins Goodreads description: Prep meets The Secret History in this sprawling debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American prep school, told in the form of a literary investigation through a distinctly millennial lens When Foster Dade arrives at Kennedy, an elite boarding school in New Jersey, the year is 2008. Barack […]

Hang the Moon

By: Jeannette Walls Goodreads description: A riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn […]

Yellowface

By: R.F. Kuang Goodreads description: Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s […]

June 2023 Tidbit

Happy Independence Day! We are feeling rather patriotic and want to share what we are up to this holiday. Helen says: Have you ever watched the show Nailed It on Netflix? It’s a hilarious baking show where people off the street get a set amount of time to recreate professionally made cake masterpieces. Maybe I […]