Moving to Italy to escape your problems sounds like an excellent plan, especially when pasta and a charming bookstore are involved. Unfortunately, Boo Walker’s The English Bookstore in Bologna proves that emotional...
Four women, a parapsychology experiment, and a house frozen in time. The Women in White by Sarah Pekkanen is a dual-timeline mystery with very questionable science.
Billy Crystal lost the home he’d lived in for 46 years, then lost his best friend, Rob Reiner. His new Broadway show, 860, is how he’s working through both.
Elsie Fitzpatrick has spent decades hiding her past, and the seven-year-old across the road is not helping. Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth is a mystery with a grump worth rooting for.
A funeral, a time loop, and enough unresolved friendship drama to make one Saturday last forever. Destination Funeral turns emotional baggage into a full-blown supernatural itinerary.
Busy Philipps went in for a scan and came out with a brain tumor diagnosis. Somehow, the story is terrifying, funny, deeply human, and exactly why I’ve been a fan since Freaks and Geeks.
I’m probably too old for Polly Pocket and Monster High dolls, but Mattel made them Buffy the Vampire Slayer-themed, so apparently age is just another thing we’re ignoring in Sunnydale.
Move naturally, eat plants, know your neighbors — that’s basically the whole Blue Zone pitch. Turns out some communities are paying six figures a year for common sense.
Joy Bridport has spent 89 years following the rules. Then her best friend gets a terminal diagnosis, and Joy discovers petty crime. Good Joy, Bad Joy is funny, warm, and sadder than it looks.
A 63-year-old woman enrolls in culinary school to win back her husband, and the life waiting for her might be better than the one she’s trying to save.
Forget finding Mr. Right. Love by the Book makes a pretty convincing case that finding the right friend is harder, messier, and possibly more important.
Rachel Khong’s My Dear You comes in weird and stays weird, with stories about race, love, ghosts, sex dolls, God, and the general inconvenience of being human. Not every story lands, but even the misses are strange...
Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto delivers a sweeping, emotionally heavy love story about identity, sacrifice, and the secrets families carry across generations. Find out why I gave the book 3.75/5 stars.
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![Good Joy, Bad Joy by Mikki Brammer [Book Review]](https://ashbydodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Good-Joy-Bad-Joy-Book-Review-hero-285x300.png "Good Joy, Bad Joy by Mikki Brammer [Book Review]")
![Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block by Jesse Q. Sutanto [Book Review]](https://ashbydodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Ms-Mebel-hero-285x300.png "Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block by Jesse Q. Sutanto [Book Review]")
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![Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto [Book Review]](https://ashbydodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Next-Time-Will-Be-Our-Turn-hero-285x300.png "Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto [Book Review]")
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