I have been fascinated with all things Persian as of late. I like the idea of getting a glimpse, even if fictional, into a place that has only connotation of oppression and terrorism from the media. I liked the aspect of this book showing the Iranian people as beautiful and complicated, just as […]

This is a book about an acclaimed child psychologist who goes home to her small town roots after one of her patients kills a couple of other kids. She loses all confidence in herself and her work, but finds love and redemption at home while working with an abused child that comes out of […]

I liked this book. I spent awhile after finishing it, trying to pin-point any part of it that made me like it. But there isn’t anything. Nothing about it was spectacular, but I liked it all the same. The plot was kind of interesting, with the story of a […]

A Stepford who-dunnit. Four country-club wives, their high earning husbands and their perfect lives come crashing down when one of their old friends is found with a gun in her hand over her ex-husbands body. Their secrets and betrayals behind the facade come out as the women try and find out who the real […]

I think this might be one of those books that’s kind of impossible not to like. This is my second reading, and I was just as entertained and charmed this time around as the first time.
It’s very clever. It’s filled with great British humor. It’s about an angel and a demon, […]