Sometimes I just need a good beach read. I got that and more in Christina Lauren’s new one The Paradise Problem. College students Liam and Anna both want to live in the housing reserved for married students (it’s roomier/cushier), so they fake marry. Over the three years they platonically room together, they…
What does it mean to conform to societal expectations? What does it look like to forge your own path? If you dare to be different, will "they" accept you? These are the questions I was left with after reading HOW TO TURN INTO A BIRD by María José Ferrada ; translated by Elizabeth Bryer. Originally…
Every one of us was born with psychic capabilities that allow us to connect to Spirit. Whether you refer to it as instinct, "a gut reaction," a hunch, we're all a little bit intuitive. Think about a time when you felt “bad vibes” from someone; or a time when you felt the presence of a…
I’m so odd, even to myself. I wonder about others like me, who seem totally fine on the outside but are rotting on the inside, where the rot is this vague state of being not-fine and not-devastated at the same time. The world tends to focus too much on the very bright or the very…
Mrs. Kip has just moved in to the hospice wing of an assisted living facility in Kansas City. Despite her terminal diagnosis, she ministers to everyone around, living out her faith as she has always done. Rules don’t apply to her; if she feels called to visit a resident across the hall she grabs her…
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore is a lovely, time-bending novel that explores what it's like to truly live life in the moment. At first, this book eluded me. I don’t mean in a literary sense. I mean literally eluded me. I lost this book so many times, it really felt like Oona herself…
I always am on the hunt to discover lesser known mystery authors who are not New York Times bestsellers. This year I found two series that could not be more different but are highly enjoyable. Ausma Zehanat Khan’s thoughtful books feature detective Esa Khattak (pronounced Hot-tock) and his partner, Rachel Getty. Set in Canada, the…
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