Reviews

In The Waiting Room Emily Bleeker has crafted the perfect thriller, giving new meaning to the term page-turner. Plan on taking this book with you everywhere you go until you reach the last page. We promise you ... Read More...

What Would You Write To Your Grown Child? Kirsten Wreggitt discusses her latest book Before I Let You Go: Stories for My Grown Son with Book Club Babble.

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

Have you ever wanted to sit down and share everything that you have learned with your child (or children)? I can only imagine that it’s every parent’s goal to teach their offspring about their triumphs and fail... Read More...

What I’m Reading this Summer: A Trilogy about Russian Spies

Mary Sullivan

Reviews

The movie Red Sparrow, starring Jennifer Lawrence as a prima ballerina turned sexy Russian spy, came out earlier this year to lukewarm criticism from the public. I liked it, but of course, I’d already read the book. Therefore, the complex plotline made more se... Read More...

The Gaia Effect, a peek inside a not-so-far-off dystopian future

Maria Riegger

Reviews

The Gaia Effect by Claire Buss is an entertaining, fast-paced read set in a world, which frankly, may not be as far-fetched as was once thought. Imagine a world where everyone is infertile and when you are r... Read More...

All the Ever Afters: A Powerful Rendition of the Stepmother’s Side of the Cinderella Story

Maria Riegger

Reviews

There are always at least two sides to every story. Perspective is everything and Danielle Teller’s novel has definitely delivered a different angle. Teller’s novel is a powerfully written rendition of the Cind... Read More...

“Oh No They Didn’t”: Amerilexicophobia

Maribel Garcia

Reviews

AMERILEXICOPHOBIA: What’s that you ask? According to Lynne Murphy, an American linguistics professor, but longtime U.K. resident, it is an illness. It’s a form of distress that the British suffer from, an affliction characterized by obsessive vitriol toward... Read More...

Is the Key to Being Resilient, Keeping Hope Realistic? An Interview with Memoirist, Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Maribel Garcia

Book Club Questions, Interviews, Memoir, on Writing, Reviews

In this memoir, we meet Becky Galli. We are first introduced to the author's life while she is safely ensconced in a pretty idyllic 1960s southern upbringing-complete with the pastor father and a stay-at-ho... Read More...

How to Create a Successful Culture

Kelly Sarabyn

Reviews

In the 2000s, Disney created one unprofitable movie after another, from Brother Bear to Home on the Range (remember those? Me neither.) Disney ended this decades-long losing streak by bringing in Ed Catmull and... Read More...

The Big Sheep: A delightfully humorous dystopian novel

Maria Riegger

Reviews

Robert Kroese’s The Big Sheep is a fun, genre-bending ride. Kroese is largely an author of humorous, deeply sarcastic science fiction, although he writes (and writes very well) in multiple genres. Indeed, I don’t think enough work has been done in the humoro... Read More...

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

Tabitha Lord

Reviews

Our guest reviewer today is Leah DeCesare. Leah is the award-winning author of Forks, Knives, and Spoons and the non-fiction series Naked Parenting. You can visit her at www.LeahDeCesare.com. Thank you, Leah! ... Read More...