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Tall Poppy Review: “Chasing Chaos” Glimpses Hollywood

I approach novels set in the world of the entertainment business with trepidation. My husband is a TV reporter who covers entertainment for a living, so I’m familiar with the beat and therefore quick to spot inaccuracies or false notes in novels with a Hollywood setting, so it was a…

Eileen GoudgeDecember 6, 2018

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Love and Afterlife in “A Change of Heart”

Sonali Dev’s third novel, A Change of Heart (Kensington), opens with Dr. Nikhil “Nic” Joshi, a former Doctors Without Borders physician, who's working as a cruise ship doctor. He's drinking himself to death while alternately chasing down, and hiding from, the ghost of his wife, Dr. Jen Joshi, who has been dead for…

Amy ImpellizeriJanuary 24, 2019

Fiction

Tall Poppies Review: Brandi Megan Granett’s “Triple Love Score”

Life is really a bunch of scrambled words—love, loss, joy, zest, quest (note to self: I possess the high-scoring j, z, and q tiles) and figuring out how they fit into our journey. In her page-turning love story Triple Love Score, Brandi Megan Granett introduces us to the smart and…

Lisa BarrNovember 13, 2017

Fiction

Tall Poppies Review: “Fallout Girl” Seeks Freedom From a Fractured Family

I'm a sucker for broken families--well, stories about them, anyway. Throw in secrets, especially L.A. secrets, and I'm in with both feet. Most of the cast in Fallout Girl (Blue Crow Publishing) are twenty-somethings. It's the age of becoming: choosing a career and a place to live, figuring out what…

Sonja YoergJune 28, 2018

Fiction

Science and Humor Explode in Weike Wang’s ‘Chemistry’

I was pleasantly surprised at how much I loved the book Chemistry! Author Weike Wang’s unnamed narrator, a Chinese-American Ph.D. student, lives with her redheaded boyfriend behind her traditional parents’ backs. Despite the high expectations for their daughter to become a chemist, she is unable to be successful in her research,…

Jennifer BlankfeinAugust 15, 2017

Fiction

Sally Rooney Depicts the Highs and Pitfalls of Two Teens in Love

sSally Rooney’newest novel, Normal People (Hogarth) is an engaging page-turner focusing on the shifting relationship between two teenagers from Ireland. This propulsive novel from the author of Conversations with Friends was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, with little wonder. Connell is a smart, popular athlete with a working class single mother,…

Jennifer BlankfeinMay 22, 2019

Fiction

A ‘Red-Haired Woman’ Turns Lives Upside Down in Pamuk’s New Book

I really enjoyed this short but dense book, The Red-Haired Woman written by Turkish Nobel Prize winning author Orhan Pamuk. In the 1980s, a teenage, fatherless boy is an apprentice to Master Mahmut, a well digger. They dig for water in the hot sun, and tell stories to pass the time.…

Jennifer BlankfeinNovember 20, 2017

Fiction

Elliot Ackerman Has Endless Inspiration for ‘Dark At the Crossing’

Here is an author whose fiction cannot be separated from his life, or, if you indulge me, whose novels are based on his life. Once a marine, with an impressive five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Elliot Ackerman is now a journalist based in Istanbul, from where he…

Frederic ColierOctober 11, 2017

Fiction

Award-Winning Poet Ocean Vuong’s Debut Novel

On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press) is a hallucinogenic and free-wheeling meditation on addiction, violence and love, composed as a series of letters to an illiterate immigrant mother. Written by award-winning poet Ocean Vuong, this is ultimately a book about language and memory, the challenge of channeling and crystalizing…

Jessica McEnteeJune 4, 2019

Fiction

Abduction and Raw Emotion in ‘The Atlas of Forgotten Places’

Don’t let this exceptional new novel fall under the radar! Based on war-torn Africa and the innocent people caught in the middle, the stunning debut of The Atlas of Forgotten Places by Jenny D. Williams takes us to Uganda where a young girl, Lily, goes missing. The authorities are hard to come…

Jennifer BlankfeinSeptember 28, 2017

Fiction

The 10 Most Memorable TV Weddings That Inspired Jasmine Guillory’s Romantic Debut

We’ve got weddings on the brain lately. Between the upcoming royal wedding Prince Harry and actress Meghan Markle AND the epic double wedding on The CW crossover last week, who can blame us? It may be late fall (and not traditionally wedding season), but there’s clearly never a wrong time to get…

Rachel CarterDecember 8, 2017

Fiction

The 6 Beloved Couples In TV and Books That We Continue to Adore

I’m not going to lie, this might have been the hardest article I ever had to write. As both a TV addict and a romance junkie, I have a laundry list of on-screen couples who I worship. Depending on the day or time, those couples fluctuate from, "Oh my god, I’ll die…

Rachel CarterAugust 24, 2015

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An Artist’s Rendition of the Beauty, and Risk, of Forbidden Love

AN ARTIST FINDS HIS MUSE … AND LOVER It’s lust at first sight for photographer Stefano Pianezza when he meets account executive Roselyn Love at a department store photo shoot. He convinces Roselyn to pose for him and soon realizes she is not only beautiful and alluring but also ……

BookTribSeptember 21, 2022

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Love Goes From Hypothesis to Proven in Ali Hazelwood’s Latest Rom-Com

You know when a book starts off with a Marie Curie / Pretty Woman mash-up that you’re in for a winner. Love on the Brain (Berkley), the follow-up to Ali Hazelwood’s wildly popular The Love Hypothesis doesn’t disappoint. THE CHARMING EQUATION CONTINUES Love on the Brain is a charming, brainy, slow-burn…

Lisa DailyAugust 24, 2022

Fiction Recommended

Historical Fiction Weaves Two Timelines of Modern Womanhood

If you ever kept a diary or journal, you probably thought about what would happen if someone else read it. And what if that reader was a family member dealing with the same issues you were, generations apart? This is the premise of A Matter of Happiness (Lake Union Publishing) by Tori Whitaker. INTERGENERATIONAL…

Laura McCaffertyNovember 8, 2022

Author Spotlight

Her Characters Fall in Love With Each Other: Katie Mettner Falls in Love With Writing

It’s time for a Christmas at Gingerbread Falls (Breaking Night Press) of the author Katie Mettner, who we’re sitting down for a cup of tea, maple scone and a cozy chat. Well, sadly, we’re not actually in the same room, but Katie’s new novel and her warm personality are so…

Judy MorenoDecember 13, 2021

Tall Poppy Review: “Chasing Chaos” Glimpses Hollywood

Tall Poppy Review: Love and Afterlife in “A Change of Heart”

Tall Poppies Review: Brandi Megan Granett’s “Triple Love Score”

Tall Poppies Review: “Fallout Girl” Seeks Freedom From a Fractured Family

Science and Humor Explode in Weike Wang’s ‘Chemistry’

Sally Rooney Depicts the Highs and Pitfalls of Two Teens in Love

A ‘Red-Haired Woman’ Turns Lives Upside Down in Pamuk’s New Book

Elliot Ackerman Has Endless Inspiration for ‘Dark At the Crossing’

Award-Winning Poet Ocean Vuong’s Debut Novel

Abduction and Raw Emotion in ‘The Atlas of Forgotten Places’

The 10 Most Memorable TV Weddings That Inspired Jasmine Guillory’s Romantic Debut

The 6 Beloved Couples In TV and Books That We Continue to Adore

An Artist’s Rendition of the Beauty, and Risk, of Forbidden Love

Love Goes From Hypothesis to Proven in Ali Hazelwood’s Latest Rom-Com

Her Characters Fall in Love With Each Other: Katie Mettner Falls in Love With Writing

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