The Book Blog of Evil

 I am wondering about whether this book is really this disappointing, or if it has to do with my expectations of it. Because what I had hear...

 I liked The Secret Life of Bees  when I read it ages ago. I liked the formal structure, where the facts about bees and their social structu...

 What a classic, escape-room-y set up! In the tiny fictional English village of Chipping Cleghorn, the local Gazette publishes a personal ad...

Just listened to this from Audible.com, and Tom Hanks is a delightful reader. He has certain cadences that feel very true to him, idiosyncra...

I would never have found this book if not for book club, and I really rather liked it. Let's dig into the nuances of that assessment, sh...

I read this on the recommendation of my mother, who has excellent taste in reading material. However--and this is an important caveat--she c...

Honestly, I didn't like this book, but I am going to try to be fair. I mean, McLain scored a big hit with The Paris Wife  that I didn...