Susanne’s Review: Klara, I simply do not know how to express my love for you. Though you are an AI, you are the epitome of what it means to be human. Kind, caring, thoughtful, intuitive, insightful, observant, and benevolent, you are everything we should strive to be and more. Klara is an AF, anContinue reading “Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro @KazuoIshiguro6 #fiction #literaryfiction #sciencefiction #fantasy #dystopia #bookreviewer #bookblogger #AI”
Category Archives: Literary fiction
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski #bukowski #literature #fiction #classics #bookreviewer #bookblogger
Susanne’s Review: Dysfunction that Breaks the Heart Ten Times Over. Knowing, however, that You Can Break Free from the Chains. Ham on Rye: My first read by Charles Bukowski, came highly recommended. A semi-autobiographical coming of age story about a young man named Henry Chinaski. There is angst, desperation, dysfunction, heartache, and pain and thenContinue reading “Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski #bukowski #literature #fiction #classics #bookreviewer #bookblogger”
The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2) by Alice Hoffman @ahoffmanwriter @simonschuster @netgalley @edelweiss_squad #fiction #literaryfiction #magicalrealism #bookreview
Susanne’s Review: Alice Hoffman, you have surpassed my wildest expectations! With The Book of Magic, the fourth book in the magic series, Ms. Hoffman has accomplished what I consider to be an impossible feat. Writing a final installment, that is, in my opinion, better than all prior books in the series. I adored The RulesContinue reading “The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2) by Alice Hoffman @ahoffmanwriter @simonschuster @netgalley @edelweiss_squad #fiction #literaryfiction #magicalrealism #bookreview”
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout @LizStrout @randomhouse #fiction #literaryfiction #bookreviewer #bookblogger
Susanne’s Review: Have you ever felt deeply connected to an author, as if the two of you were simpatico? That is how I feel about my “relationship” (lol) with Elizabeth Strout – I feel as though we are connected, and as though when reading her books, she is speaking directly to me. (As if thatContinue reading “Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout @LizStrout @randomhouse #fiction #literaryfiction #bookreviewer #bookblogger”
Under the Magnolias by T.I. Lowe @TiLowe @TyndaleHouse #fiction #contemporaryfiction #bookreview
Susanne’s Review: Poignant, Thought-Provoking, and Affecting. “Under the Magnolias” will capture your heart and run away with it. Austin Foster is a teenage girl who is forced to grow up way too fast when her mother passes away and she is left to raise her younger siblings. Dysfunction runs amok in this familial drama withContinue reading “Under the Magnolias by T.I. Lowe @TiLowe @TyndaleHouse #fiction #contemporaryfiction #bookreview”
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead #fiction #historical fiction #literaryfiction #bookreviewer
Susanne’s Review: Utterly Gut-Wrenching! A fictitious novel about a real reformatory school in Florida that existed in the Jim Crow era, “The Nickel Boys” broke my heart. I think perhaps it broke the heart of everyone who read this book before me and I will hazard a guess that it will break the hearts ofContinue reading “The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead #fiction #historical fiction #literaryfiction #bookreviewer”
Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan @jcourtsull #fiction #literaryfiction #bookreview #bookreviewer
Susanne’s Review: Female Friendships can be complicated. Especially as we get older. The dynamics of class, friendship, marriage, motherhood, power, and privilege, are explored to absolute perfection in “Friends and Strangers” by J. Courtney Sullivan. Elizabeth is a married mother, who struggles with her new life in Upstate New York. Having recently moved from Brooklyn,Continue reading “Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan @jcourtsull #fiction #literaryfiction #bookreview #bookreviewer”
The Dry by Jane Harper @janeharperautho @Flatironbooks #crimefiction #bookreview
Susanne’s Review: A Devastating Crime; One Man’s Inescapable Past; The Place Where it All Goes Down. When Federal Agent Aaron Falk returns home to Kiewarra in the Australian Outback, it’s not because he’s homesick. His best friend Luke is gone, and Falk goes home to attend his funeral. That’s not all of course. Luke isContinue reading “The Dry by Jane Harper @janeharperautho @Flatironbooks #crimefiction #bookreview”
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy @CharMcConaghy #bookreview #bookblogger
Susanne’s Review: Brilliant. Moving. Uncharted. Franny Stone is a damaged woman who loves with abandon and yet leaves with nary a thought. She is the keeper of deep dark secrets, who is on a mission. To follow the last migration of the Arctic Terns from Greenland to Antarctica. Dangerous, treacherous, and uncharted, Franny finds aContinue reading “Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy @CharMcConaghy #bookreview #bookblogger”
Together We Will Go by J. Michael Straczynksi @straczynski @GalleryBooks
Susanne’s Review: Brilliant, Heart-Wrenching and So Very Unexpected. A group of strangers come together for a road trip with only one destination: The end of the road. For these strangers, either their lives didn’t turn out as they expected or things seem utterly hopeless and when an opportunity arises, to face the end together, theyContinue reading “Together We Will Go by J. Michael Straczynksi @straczynski @GalleryBooks”
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