Jenny Lyons
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Book review: Accidentally Engaged — by Farah Heron
(Forever) If you like cooking competitions and romantic comedy, you will love Farah Heron’s new romance. Reena Manji’s parents have done it again; they’ve arranged her marriage to…
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Book review: Infinite Country — by Patricia Engel
(Avid Reader Press) The story of Elena and Mauro, Colombians by birth and allegiance, and their family, children born in both Bogotá and the United States, is the…
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Book review: Vera — by Carol Edgarian
(Scribner Book Company) Meet Vera, the oldest living survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake — one of the worst and deadliest earthquakes in the history of the…
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Book review: Endpapers: A family story of books, war, escape, and home — by Alexander Wolff
(Atlantic Monthly Press) “Endpapers,” a historical and literary narrative/memoir, written by Cornwall-based journalist Alexander Wolff, opens with an illustrated family tree and contains a liberally-distributed trove of family…
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Book review: The Electric Kingdom — by David Arnold
(Viking Books for Young Readers) In David Arnold’s new young adult (that adults will also enjoy) post-apocalyptic survival story, a young woman and her dog set out on…
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Book review: Under A White Sky: The Nature of the Future — by Elizabeth Kolbert
(Crown Publishing Group) Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book may have you shaking your head and chuckling, albeit grimly and under your breath. In the groundbreaking Silent…
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Book review: The Liar’s Dictionary — by Eley Williams
(Doubleday Books) Mallory, three years into a “temporary” internship at Swansby’s, the smaller, disgruntled and forgotten tome akin to the Oxford English Dictionary, mainly fields vaguely threatening phone…
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Book review: The Survivors — by Jane Harper
(Flatiron Books) When we first meet Bronte, an art student just landed in Evelyn Bay, a small coastal town on Tasmania off the southern coast of Australia, for…
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Book review: Aftershocks: A memoir — by Nadia Owusu
(Simon & Schuster) It is often said you can learn a lot by walking in someone else’s shoes, and this gifted writer, Nadia Owusu, winner of a Whiting…
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Book review: Better Luck Next Time — by Julia Claiborne Johnson
(Custom House) When an unknown but interested party finds Howard Stovall Bennett III, living out his last days in a retirement home, and shows him an old photo,…
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Book review: The Captive — by Fiona King Foster
(Ecco Press) In a nation split by irreconcilable differences, one woman, rigid and unyielding in her determination, imprinted with a legacy of familial misconduct, takes on the task…
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Book review: The Fortunate Ones — by Ed Tarkington
(Algonquin Books) It was just too good to be true. Charlie Boykin, a boy whose life had been marked by misfortune — his father gone before he was…
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Book review: Skunk and Badger — by Amy Timberlake
(Algonquin Young Readers) Badger, a rock scientist without steady rock work, but most assuredly on the precipice of an Important Rock Discovery, lives in his Aunt Lulu’s brownstone,…
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Book review: Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures
(Random House) Be prepared to be amazed as you enter the world of fungi, from yeast to psychedelics, mycelial networks to metabolic masters. You’ll learn about fungal worm-hunting…
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Book review: The Best American Travel Writing 2020
(Mariner Books) Robert Macfarlane, author of “Underland,” “The Lost Words” and “The Lost Spells,” as guest editor this year, ushers readers into this most peculiar time, a time…
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Book review: The Wim Hof Method — by Wim Hof
(Sounds True) You’ve probably heard of the Dutch extreme athlete Wim Hof, also known as the Iceman, who has set numerous world records with his ability to withstand…