REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.” After hearing about Amy Bloom’s memoir, how her writing is the kind of composition a writer dreams of,...
REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Like everyone else, she got only one life. The one she was living right now. This life that could only have happened with every experience she’d ever had – that had landed her here, in this perfect moment.” If you enjoy immersing yourself in novels about the rich an...
REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns.” In Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel Remarkably Bright Creatures, we meet Marcellus, the Giant Pacific octopus, who lives in an aquarium on the West Coast. You go...