June 16, 2021

Drama "Queen"...What A Character!

June 16, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

All Eyes Are Drawn To Them…For Better Or Worse

Hello Girls - Brittany Cavallro & Emily Henry

Undead Girl Gang - Lily Anderson

Postcards From The Edge - Carrie Fisher

Flight Attendant - Chris Bohjahlan

Hollywood Wives - Jackie Collins

Certain Dark Things - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Vinegar Girl - Anne Tyler

Valley Of The Dolls - Jacqueline Susann

Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K. Hamilton

A Certain Hunger - Chelsea Summers

Harley In The Sky - Akemi Dawn Bowman

White Trash Zombie - Diana Rowland

Circe - Madeline Miller

Stepford Wives - Ira Levin

Good Behaviour - Blake Crouch

Razor Girl - Carl Hiassen

Misery - Stephen King

Heartburn - Nora Ephron

Cherry - Lindsey Rosin

June 15, 2021

Crib Notes-In Short...

June 15, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Crib Notes-In Short…

Short stories are perfect for an attention span suffering from fatigue, whatever the cause; incessant news looping the same information, constantly soothing ourselves over missing friends and family, or just plain malaise. The best of them are fully transformative digestible bites of fiction to give a reader a brief respite from reality.

June 10, 2021

Crib Notes-The Stacks...Chapter Four

June 10, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Crib Notes-The Stacks…Chapter Four

Given that my personal books read list is quite extensive, it’s no surprise that I gravitate towards the new releases, managing the ebb and flow of my TBR with nerdy glee. But my bookish choices of the current day have left many of these gems falling through the cracks of my blog.

Let me dig out some great reads from the stacks for you!

June 08, 2021

The End Of Men - Christina Sweeney Baird

June 08, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Fiction

Rating: 6/10

An extremely contagious viral plague wipes out 90% of the world’s men within days of them contracting it. As you might imagine this creates some interesting implications in terms of gender dynamics and influence. Familiar, but not familiar, the book nonetheless hits close to home upon occasion.

June 03, 2021

Hench - Natalie Zina Walschots

June 03, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Sci-Fi/ Speculative Fiction

Rating: 8/10

When a book blurb claims that the story you are about to immerse yourself in is about a young woman who discovers the greatest superpower, for good or bad, is a properly executed spreadsheet, I am in!

June 01, 2021

Crib Notes-The Stacks...Chapter Three

June 01, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Crib Notes-The Stacks…Chapter Three

Let me dig out some great reads from the stacks for you!

May 27, 2021

Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead - Emily Austin

May 27, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Fiction

Rating: 8/10

Gilda is a twenty something lesbian atheist hypochondriac with a profound anxiety disorder that stumbles into a job at a Catholic church and becomes obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death. What could possibly go wrong?!?

May 25, 2021

Find You First - Linwood Barclay

May 25, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Thriller

Rating: 6.5/10

“Money is the root of all evil”. This is the first, and likely the last, time I will quote something vaguely Biblical. But in this tale, nothing is more apropos.

May 20, 2021

The Audacity Of Sara Grayson - Joani Elliot

May 20, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Fiction/Romance

Rating: 7.5/10

Three weeks after her mother’s death, greeting card writer Sara finds out she needs to write the grand finale to her mother’s hugely popular series. That’s about as much terror as you are going to get in this charming and delightful read!

May 18, 2021

Think Again - Adam Grant

May 18, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Non-Fiction

Rating: 9/10

We are taught from childhood that a key mark of intelligence is the ability to think and learn. But in his new book, Adam Grant says that in our turbulent, fast paced world, there’s a more important skill; the ability to rethink and unlearn.

May 12, 2021

Crib Notes-The Stacks...Chapter Two

May 12, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Crib Notes-The Stacks…Chapter Two

Let me dig out some great reads from the stacks for you!

May 09, 2021

Artistic Touch...

May 09, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

New & Fresh Graphic Novels!

The Secret To Superhuman Strength - Alison Bechdel

Girlsplaining - Katya Klengel

Weeding - Genevieve Lebleu

Bubble - Jordan Morris & Sarah Morgan

My Favourite Thing Is Monsters - Emil Ferris

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden - Mannie Murphy

Shadow Life - Hiromi Goto & Ann Xu

Fangs - Sarah Anderson

Reckless - Ed Brubaker & Sean Philips

Basketful Of Heads - Joe Hill

Work For A Milliion - Amanda Derbert & Selena Goulding

Pizza Punks - Cole Pauls

After The Rain - Nnedi Okorafor & John Jennings

Sleeping Beauties - Stephen King & Owen King

Be More Chill - David Levithan & Nick Bertozzi

The Old Guard - Greg Rucka & Andrew Wheeler

Abbott - Saladin Ahmed

The 7 Deadly Sin - Tze Chun & Artyom Trajhanov

Maids - Katie Skelly

May 09, 2021

Stuck In The Middle With You

May 09, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Awesome Reads For Middle-Schoolers!

Star Fish - Lisa Fipps

Violet & The Pie Of Life - Debra Green

Weird Kid - Greg Van Eekhout

Oh My Gods - Stephanie Cook

Real - Carol Cujec

Magical Reality Of Nadia - Bassem Youssef

Simon B. Rhymin' - Dwane Reed

Aminas Song - Hena Khan

Show Us Who You Are - Elle McNicoll

From The Desk Of Zoe Washington - Janae Marks

Midsommers Mayhem - Rajani Larocca

Roll With It - Jamie Sumner

Measuring Up - Lily Lamotte

Ways To Make Sunshine - Renee Watson

Stargazing - Jen Wang

The Greatest Superpower - Alex Sanchez

Generation Misfits - Akemi Dawn Bowman

The Shape Of Thunder - Jasmine Warga

The Elephant In The Room - Holly Goldberg Sloan

May 06, 2021

Eight Detectives - Alex Pavesi

May 06, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Mystery/Suspense

Rating: 9/10

If you are looking for a mystery that is not a full-frontal assault on your intellect, look elsewhere! This stellar contribution to the genre is a mystery within a mystery, a nesting dolls level of unpacking will be required.

May 04, 2021

Crib Notes-The Stacks...Chapter One

May 04, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Crib Notes-The Stacks…Chapter One

Let me dig out some great reads from the stacks for you!

April 29, 2021

Storied Life Of A.J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin

April 29, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Fiction

Rating: 8.5/10

A charming gem of a story that observes a cranky bookseller and how his life is transformed when an unexpected package shows up at his shop.

April 27, 2021

Horrorstor - Grady Hendrix

April 27, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Horror

Rating: 8/10

If you’ve ever lost time while hungering for sunlight wandering mazelike paths of the fake rooms Ikea routes you through, you will be right at home in the setting of this novel. At least until the lights go out!

April 22, 2021

Crib Notes-The Next Big Idea

April 22, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Crib Notes-The Next Big Idea

This podcast shares conversations with authors whos’ ideas might very well change your life. Ground-breaking, thought provoking and curated by a select group of individuals that want to share with us the next big idea. Here I share highlights on the best of the best.

April 20, 2021

One By One - Ruth Ware

April 20, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Mystery

Rating: 7/10

Replete with the red herrings, twists, and the slow burn of suspense that we have come to expect from Ware, this is great read to wile away the hours with. May our own “locked room” situations remain bloodless. At this point in this seemingly endless pandemic that’s really all we can ask for.

April 15, 2021

On My Watch List!

April 15, 2021/ Donna Sherwood

Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You…

Sleeping Giants – Sylvain Neuvel

Monster – Walter Dean Meyers

Permanent Record – Mary H. K. Choi

Harriet The Spy - Louise Fitzhugh

Daisy Jones & The Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid,

The Southern Book Clubs Guide To Slaying Vampires – Grady Hendrix

Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

Dark Matter – Blake Crouch,

Severance – Ling Ma

Nightmare Alley - William Lindsay Gresham

Deep Water - Patricia Highsmith

The Last Duel - Eric Jager

The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah

Anatomy Of A Scandal - Sarah Vaughn

A Woman In The Window - A.J. Finn

Last Looks – Howard Michael Gould

Dopesick - Beth Macy

Knife Of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking Book One – Patrick Ness

Shadow & Bone - Leigh Bardugo

Blog

All Eyes Are Drawn To Them…For Better Or Worse

Crib Notes-In Short…

Crib Notes-The Stacks…Chapter Four

Fiction

Rating: 6/10

Sci-Fi/ Speculative Fiction

Rating: 8/10

Crib Notes-The Stacks…Chapter Three

Fiction

Rating: 8/10

Thriller

Rating: 6.5/10

Fiction/Romance

Rating: 7.5/10

Non-Fiction

Rating: 9/10

Crib Notes-The Stacks…Chapter Two

New & Fresh Graphic Novels!

Awesome Reads For Middle-Schoolers!

Mystery/Suspense

Rating: 9/10

Crib Notes-The Stacks…Chapter One

Fiction

Rating: 8.5/10

Horror

Rating: 8/10

Crib Notes-The Next Big Idea

Mystery

Rating: 7/10

Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You…

Cracking the Spine

On My Nightstand