Jenny Lyons
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Book review: Mona at Sea — by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
(Santa Fe Writer’s Project)Mona — also known as Sad Millennial, infamous star of a viral video captured as her much-deserved job vanished before her eyes in the economic…
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Book review: The Startup Wife — by Tahmima Anam
(Scribner Book Company)Asha, daughter of Bengali immigrants, is a coder, and a brilliant coder at that. She is developing an algorithm that will attempt to endow AI, artificial…
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Book review: Fox and I: An uncommon friendship — by Catherine Raven
(Spiegel & Grau)For someone like Catherine Raven — natural history teacher, former national park ranger, and self-professed loner — consorting with a fox, or appearing to anthropomorphize a…
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Book review: Seven Days in June — by Tia Williams
(Grand Central Publishing)It would clearly give away too much, but imagine for a second if this book title was “Seven Steamy Days in June” and you would have…
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Book review: How the World is Passed — by Clint Smith
(Little Brown and Company)Clint Smith, poet, educator and writer, is the perfect tour guide for this road trip to America’s most racially-charged settings, as he visits, in person,…
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Book review: Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft — by Samantha Silva
(Flatiron Books)This biographical novel is a fictionalized historical account of the birth of Mary Wollstonecraft’s daughter and the days immediately following. Wollstonecraft was courageous, with a sensibility and…
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Book review: Legends of the North Cascades — by Jonathan Evison
(Algonquin Books)By every measure, Dave Cartwright was a hero and a legend in his small Pacific Northwest town — star quarterback of the Vigilante Falls high school football…
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Book review: With Teeth — by Kristen Arnett
(Riverhead Books)Sammie and Monika’s marriage is not unusual. They’ve assumed roles, chosen at first, but, as time has passed, those roles, and how they have come to define…
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Book review: Punch Me Up To The Gods — by Brian Broome
If you’ve been feeling numb around the edges lately, as, wearily, year two of the global pandemic marches on, you are sure to be fully woken up by…
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Book review: Project Hail Mary — by Andy Weir
(Ballantine Books)The title of Andy Weir’s latest sci-fi thriller immediately imparts a good sense of the plot, taking its name from the common American idiom which refers to…
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Book review: Mary Jane — by Jessica Anya Blau
(Custom House) Mary Jane — a 14-year-old girl in 1970s Baltimore, sheltered from the seismic cultural shift the country has taken by her strict, conformist parents — has…
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Book review: Hour of the Witch — by Chris Bohjalian
(Doubleday Books) In a departure from his most recent bestselling books, Chris Bohjalian, lucky for us, a local to Addison County and a New York Times bestselling author,…
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Book review: Wonder Walkers — by Micha Archer
(Nancy Paulsen Books) Two children, in their house, and one inquires of the other, “Wonder walk?? which tells the reader, or listener, of this picture book, that a…
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Book review: The Addiction Inoculation — by Jessica Lahey
(Harper) The adolescent brain is a marvel of biology, and understanding the pace of its growth is how this book begins to unravel why teens are “wired for…
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Book review: Libertie — by Kaitlyn Greenidge
(Algonquin Books) In their free Black community, rooted in still-rural Brooklyn in the days of Reconstruction following the Civil War, Libertie’s mother was a person of high regard,…
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Book review: The Agitators — by Dorothy Wickenden
(Scribner Book Company) Subtitled “Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights,” and written by author, journalist and current executive editor of the New Yorker, Dorothy Wickenden’s,…