Book Review: The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Science Fiction 5+/5

Toby, a survivor of a humanity-destroying pandemic, finds a small struggling group within a dog-eat-dog world. I loved this book. Beautifully but accessibly written with amazing characters and a phenomenal world. You have to read the epilogue—it hits you like a sack of hammers.

Book Review: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Thriller 5+/5

Evelyn Gardner, a broken spy from World War I, doesn’t believe she can help Charlie St. Claire find her missing cousin after World War II, until she finds a reason to fight: revenge. This was a book I could not put down, read twice, and would read again. Characters drew me into their lives and made me passionate to see them overcome hurdles to find happiness, or at least, peace. The worlds they inhabited were enveloping and captivating, and the plot twisted and twisted, and twisted again.

Busy with family


Again, busy with family this week. Cool thing: Heather’s current favorite fandom is A League of Their Own, and a friend set up an opportunity for Heather to do a Zoom call with Abbi Jacobson, writer and lead actor in that series. It was very cool!