Lindsay Reads the World

4 Stars I don't have a lot of experience with kids with special needs, but I have a little. I have a masters in teaching, and I took the requisite special ed courses in grad school. I've also worked in the schools with kids with various special needs, albeit not as the special ed teacher… Continue reading Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

3.5 Stars Image credit: Target.com This book was a cheap Kindle buy that I largely read while on the elliptical at the gym. The synopsis sounded interesting enough, and I thought the cover was pretty. Sometimes that's really all it takes to make me buy a book. I actually ended up enjoying it a lot… Continue reading Only Ever Her by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen

3 Stars Kristin Hannah is a pretty new discovery for me, although she has been writing books for many years now. I had heard great things about her WWII novel The Nightingale, so that was the first one of hers I read, and I loved it. Next I read her most recent novel, The Great… Continue reading Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah

3 stars Image Credit: Amazon.com I absolutely love an unreliable narrator. I remember when I was reading Gone Girl, and there is a chapter where Nick (the husband character) was being interviewed by the police. He answers their questions, satisfying both the police and the reader. Then the very last sentence of the chapter is,… Continue reading The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

4.5 stars Image Credit: Amazon.com As I've said in a previous post, there are a lot of novels out there about World War II, and I tend to read many of them. That time in history fascinates people as much as it horrifies them, and for those of us who didn't live through it, it's… Continue reading The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

5 stars Image Credit: Barnesandnoble.com Drugs, guns, a house full of eccentric guests, and a murder mystery. When I first read the synopsis of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, it immediately made me think of the board game Clue. I thought of a huge mansion full of people, with everyone… Continue reading The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

I have several books swirling around in my head right now for which I need to write posts, but I don't really feel like writing about any of them. Instead, I've decided to do a post on books I recently started and DNF: Did Not Finish. DNFing books is a controversial topic in the world… Continue reading Books I’ve Dumped: The Dreaded DNF

4 stars Image Credit: Barnesandnoble.com When I first saw this book on Goodreads, I wasn't really interested in reading it because a lot of people were comparing it to Bridget Jones's Diary. I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies or romances in general, and taking the time to read one just sounded annoying. The… Continue reading Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

5 stars Image Credit: bookoutlet.com Over the past few years, the issue of transgender rights has been in the news a lot. It seems like it all started with the whole bathroom debate, but transgender people haven't suddenly popped up out of nowhere. They've always been around, hiding in plain sight, or sometimes just plain… Continue reading This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

3.5 stars Image Credit: goodreads.com Death is one of life's greatest mysteries, which is a cliche, but cliches tend to originate from truth. Death doesn't discriminate based on economic status, race, gender, sexuality, talent, merit, power, or age. It can come for any of us at any time, and in time, it comes for us… Continue reading The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin