Spring Must Reads

“The geese don't care that I'm crying again. They're used to it.” Fiction — five stars. 31-year-old Casey Peabody is a writer. Waiting tables to avoid being pulled under by her debt, recently dumped and unable to finish her novel after six years of work, Casey struggles to cope with the recent death of her mother. When she begins seeing two men at the same time, her life starts falling apa...

“Childhood is a tissue of lies that endure in the past tense” Fiction — four stars. After her mother’s suspicious death, Delia goes on a journey to uncover the mystery of her mother’s life. As she discovers more about her childhood, from her abusive father to her mother’s affair with her father’s coworker, Delia grows even closer to her deceased mother. Ferrante’s debut novel is...

“Where is my f***ing sense of eventuality actually?” Fiction — four stars. Pond is a 210-page book about a pond. The book is a collection of ramblings in the best way possible. Each story is from the perspective of a woman living alone near the pond. From her stove to a wooden sign on the shore, Bennett allows us to dive into her head as she word vomits at us. The only thing I can say is t...

“At the end as at the start, and through all the in-betweens, I love you.” Science fiction — five stars. This Is How You Lose the Time War is about two time-travelers on opposite sides of an endless war. What starts as taunting letters soon turns into romance, as the two cannot pull out of each other’s orbits.  I won’t spend too long summarizing it because I’ve reviewed this book before in my New...

“Just because it is in Malibu's nature to burn, so was it in one particular person's nature to set fire and walk away.” Fiction — four stars. In the third book of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s epic trilogy, Nina Rivera, the oldest of the four famous children of Mick Rivera, throws her annual end-of-summer party. The book takes place over a single day with flashbacks to her childhood interrupting the stor...

“I would be Medusa... if the gods held me accountable one day for the sins of someone else, if they came for me to punish a man’s actions, I would not hide away like Pasiphae. I would wear that coronet of snakes and the world would shrink for me instead.” Myth retelling — four stars. Ariadne is a Circe-esqe retelling of the myth of Ariadne. Beginning in her childhood, we follow her through myt...