December Club Picks

December Club Picks

Kiwi   12/02/19   See The Picks »

It looks like it's going to be a great December! One I've already read (and loved, so there's that), and a couple I am most definitely looking forward ...

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
- Emilie Buchwald

The Dead Girls Club

The Dead Girls Club

Kiwi   11/12/19   Read The Review »

A decades-old friendship that dissolved in the face of pre-teen obsession with a ghost story. A missing girl and a wrongly-imprisoned mother. And now, ...

The Family Upstairs

The Family Upstairs

Kiwi   11/05/19   Read The Review »

I am not going to waste a single second of your time before telling you that I devoured The Family Upstairs in less than twenty-four hours. I started ...

Cilka's Journey

Cilka's Journey

Kiwi   10/01/19   Read The Review »

From the Kiwi-born author of The Tattooist Of Auschwitz, Cilka’s Journey explores what happened to young Cecilia (Cilka) Klein, imprisoned in the Ausc ...

Club Round Up

Club Round Up

Kiwi   09/06/19   See The Picks »

One of my favorite parts of the month is learning all the book club picks! Cos, nobody's TBR is ever BIG enough, right? So ... we're diving in with a ...

Shorts: August 2019

Shorts: August 2019

Kiwi   09/05/19   See The Shorts »

A great selection of reads from the gang over at Bloodhound Books was among my August pile of ARC’s - they were reviewed on Amazon and Goodreads, but ...

Cold Woods

Cold Woods

Kiwi   08/22/19   Read The Review »

Cold Woods is the second book in Ms. Katchur’s Northampton County series and reads well as a standalone - but it’s predecessor, River Bodies, is a gre ...

The Decoy

The Decoy

Kiwi   08/07/19   Read The Review »

A small village in the countryside, a close group of friends, a dead chihuahua, a couple of accidental deaths and all the suspicions that surround the ...

It's A Library Thang ...

It's A Library Thang ...

Kiwi   08/05/19   Read More »

Everybody loves libraries, right? But what if your reading life has predominantly moved to an e-reader and you’re wondering if you’ll be stuck buying ...


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