Amy Wilhelm – Book Club Babble

Serena Khan is hitting all the benchmarks of successful adulting. She has a great boyfriend who wants to get married, a successful career, and, most importantly, a life plan i.e., template, to guide her through... Read More...

Book Club Questions for Out of the Ashes by Kara Thomas

Amy Wilhelm

Book Club Questions, Reviews

Out of the Ashes has plenty of fodder for book clubs to incite heated discussions. Set in an insular, prone-to-paranoia town, it features a flawed heroine intent on solving a decades-old crime. Over the pas... Read More...

I’ll Stop the World – Lauren Thoman’s Charming and Captivating Debut

Amy Wilhelm

Interviews, Reviews

Every teenager experiences some form of angst, but in Justin Warren's case, it's so ongoing that he's gotten used to it. His would-be grandparents died in a fire decades ago, a loss that impacted his mother's l... Read More...

Hollow Beasts – An Interview With Alisa Lynn Valdés

Amy Wilhelm

Interviews

Jodi Luna, the heroine of Hollow Beasts, trades academic life in Boston for a job as a game warden in New Mexico. It’s not as crazy as it sounds because her family roots bind her deeply to the gorgeous natural ... Read More...

Robert Dugoni Kills It Again With Her Deadly Game

Amy Wilhelm

Interviews, Reviews

The Dugan Family's criminal defense law firm hopes their prodigal daughter Keera will save the day and rescue the firm from the dire straits her alcoholic father has left it in. He's stopped taking big cases fo... Read More...

4 Ways Reading Can Improve Mental Health

Amy Wilhelm

Literary Lagniappe, on Reading

Sometimes we neglect to take care of ourselves because we are too preoccupied with taking care of our families, friends, and jobs. Did you know that one way to enhance your mental health is through reading? Her... Read More...

Julie Carrick Dalton’s The Last Beekeeper Makes an Ideal Book Club Read

Amy Wilhelm

Book Club Profiles, Book Club Questions, Reviews

Synopsis: It’s been more than a decade since The Great Collapse of the world’s pollinators, and Sasha Severn has returned to her childhood home with one goal in mind―find the mythic research her father, the in... Read More...

Lexie Elliott Talks About Her Fabulous Psychological Thriller Bright and Deadly Things

Amy Wilhelm

Interviews, Reviews

Lexie Elliott's newest psychological thriller, Bright And Deadly Things, kills it. And no, we're not sorry for the bad pun. Recently widowed, Dr. Emily Rivers visits a prestigious reading retreat at Chalet des ... Read More...

The Fires – A Novel by Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir

Amy Wilhelm

Interviews, Reviews

Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir's The Fires explores the metaphors of heat and fire through the gorgeous and dangerous entanglement of Anna's volcano research and her fiery affair with a bohemian photographer. S... Read More...

Rebecca Kelley’s No One Knows Us Here

Amy Wilhelm

Interviews, Literary Lagniappe, Reviews

I love it when an author makes unconventional choices and thoroughly succeeds! Rebecca Kelley set up a challenge for herself when she showed her story's ending first – never my favorite choice. I love that desp... Read More...

Come Aboard the Starship Horizon: An Interview with Tabitha Lord

The Best Laid Plans – Guest Post by Mark Goldblatt

Love Buzz – An Intelligent and Charming Debut by Neely Tubati-Alexander

Book Club Questions and Q&A with Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer Michael C. Bland

She’s Not Home – Lena George’s Masterful Fiction Debut

I’ll Stop the World – Lauren Thoman’s Charming and Captivating Debut

Hollow Beasts – An Interview With Alisa Lynn Valdés

Disgruntled

Love Buzz – An Intelligent and Charming Debut by Neely Tubati-Alexander

Book Club Questions for Out of the Ashes by Kara Thomas

Book Club Questions for Shadows We Carry by Meryl Ain

She’s Not Home – Lena George’s Masterful Fiction Debut

I’ll Stop the World – Lauren Thoman’s Charming and Captivating Debut

Robert Dugoni Kills It Again With Her Deadly Game

Paper Towns

Should I Watch The People We Hate at the Wedding?

Should I Watch All the Old Knives? – Joint Review with Katie Kupstas

The Best Book-To-Movie Adaptations To Hit Your Screens

The Top Fantasy Book Adaptations to Look Forward To

Why BCB Thinks Dune Will Be A Spectacular Movie

Should I Watch Chaos Walking

Why Read? My Top Eight Reasons

4 Ways Reading Can Improve Mental Health

Roxana Arama Talks Immigration – Facts, Fiction, and Recommended Reading

Rebecca Kelley’s No One Knows Us Here

Love Buzz – An Intelligent and Charming Debut by Neely Tubati-Alexander

Book Club Questions for Out of the Ashes by Kara Thomas

I’ll Stop the World – Lauren Thoman’s Charming and Captivating Debut

Hollow Beasts – An Interview With Alisa Lynn Valdés

Robert Dugoni Kills It Again With Her Deadly Game

4 Ways Reading Can Improve Mental Health

Julie Carrick Dalton’s The Last Beekeeper Makes an Ideal Book Club Read

Lexie Elliott Talks About Her Fabulous Psychological Thriller Bright and Deadly Things

The Fires – A Novel by Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir

Rebecca Kelley’s No One Knows Us Here

Author Amy Wilhelm