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LQ Readers, this one is a good one!! Before I get into my review, I have some amazing things to share with you about this book tour. Meerkat Press sent me a copy of The Road to Woop Woop and…

While there are plenty of Hallmark-y stories out there to satisfy devotees of the cute, Christmas romance, it can be harder to find books that reflect the Christmas season many of us actually have with our families. As much as…

Enter the Aardvark by Jessica Anthony is odd. And funny. And contains everything from magical happenings, to a right wing Congressman, to a stuffed aardvark with a dark past, all in 183 pages.  The Summary:  Congressman Alexander Paine Wilson wakes…

My mom introduced me to Ann Patchett when I was desperately hunting for new reading material after I graduated from college last spring. The heavy literary works I’d read as a fourth year English major had depleted my desire for…

What a weird time to be a book club addict, like myself. All of my book clubs for the past two months have been virtual, though one of my book clubs just started reintroducing in-person meetings. We all hung out…

As the year is wrapping up, the last book clubs of the year are upon us. I have just one more meeting and then I won’t see my book-loving friends again until 2020 — I can’t believe it! What a…

If you had a chance to do over part of your college experience, would you? Shane has been doing college all wrong. Pre-med, stellar grades, and happy parents…sounds ideal—but Shane’s made zero friends, goes home every weekend, and romance…what’s that?…

Hannah Beckerman’s latest novel is about a family forever transformed by deep secrets. For decades, Audrey has hoped for her two daughters, Lily and Jess, to make amends. She desperately wants her two granddaughters to meet each other. Though Audrey…

Fall is a wonderful time for cozying up with a good book, and can be a fabulous time for a book club meeting — as long as everyone’s schedules align! This is definitely the time of year that it gets…

Anyone who knows me knows that I love a good book club. I joined my first when I lived in NYC and was looking for fellow readers; I found it on Meetup. Since I moved back to Michigan 5 years…