review by Meredith McKinnie “Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.” Like so many of us, spring brings feelings of renewal and self-assessment. Along with decluttering my environment, I begin to evaluate my behaviors. James Clear’s book Atomic Ha...
review by Meredith McKinnie “Good marriages are never as interesting as bad affairs.” It’s rare that I indulge books that I know my mother-in-law will love, but Ann Patchett’s new feel-good novel is definitely one of them. It’s technically a pandemic novel, but not in how you might think. Lara Nelson...
REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “I don’t want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt.” The aforementioned opening words of Namwali Sherpell’s new novel, chilling and ambiguous, suggest a confessional of sorts, a dive into the abyss of emotion that follows a tragic loss. And that would ...
