Here are our TBRs for the coming month!
July TBR and June Wrap-up
Heir of Novron (Riyria Revelations 5 & 6 double review)
Opening the final book in a series you’ve loved dearly is never an easy thing to do. I was on the one hand so excited to read the conclusion to Riyria Revelations but on the other so reluctant to say goodbye to these wonderful characters.
Team Review: Lab Girl
From the jacket flap description, it seems like Lab Girl should be about how one woman fights to succeed in the scientific field. But it’s a lot more about how different life working in the field of scientific research can be from really any other career path. Hope Jahren carries on her research despite budget cuts, lack of materials, and administrative support.
Double Review: Year of Yes and Beyond the Label
“They tell you: Follow your dreams. Listen to your spirit. Change the world. Make your mark. Find your inner voice and make it sing. Embrace failure. Dream. Dream and dream big. As a matter of fact, dream and don’t stop dreaming until your dream comes true. I think that’s crap. I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, powerful, engaged people? Are busy doing,” Shonda Rhimes
Beartown
I thought I had every reason to sit back and enjoy Beartown. But Beartown is like his A Casual Vacancy—the one Rowling wrote after she finished the Harry Potter series.
Swamplandia!
“The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it,” Karen Russell.
Lincoln in the Bardo
When it’s done right, I love weird fiction. But it has to be weird for a purpose, and Saunders is, in my opinion, the master of weird.
A Visit from the Goon Squad
It isn’t often that I close a book and feel goosebumps crawl across my arms while a deep satisfaction glows in my core. But that’s exactly what happened at the end of A Visit from the Goon Squad.
Mayflower
Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower covers one of the most significant moments in American history. I was surprised to learn that my mythological idea of the first Thanksgiving and the Plymouth Rock landing weren’t terribly far from the truth.
June Reads
Here are our TBRs for June!
Lit Lens 