Cori’s Pick: Normal People by Sally Rooney This book was published April 2019 and I don’t recollect a ton of buzz about it back then. But then a couple of months ago, I started hearing about it more and more. Come to find out, it was released as a Hulu original series in April 2020. …
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The Adventurer’s Son
Cori’s Pick: The Adventurer’s Son by Roman Dial The Adventurer’s Son is a memoir, written by Roman Dial. Roman is a professor, biologist, legendary Alaskan explorer, and National Geographic Explorer. And until the publication of this book (February 2020), the only other book he had written was a how-to guide on packrafting. Roman and his…
My Oxford Year
Cori’s Pick: My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan Did you read the JoJo Moyes Me Before You trilogy? Did you love it? If so, I highly recommend you snatch up Julia Whelan’s tasty debut (April, 2018), sit back and prepare to laugh and perhaps shed a tear – no spoilers here, but for me, the…
The Gifted School
Cori’s Pick: The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger Wow. What a timely read! This book was published in July of 2019 – which coincidentally was just a few months after the massive college admission cheating scandal of a couple of famous actresses (Ms Huffman, Ms Loughlin – we’re talkin’ about you). This is a juicy,…
The Herd
Cori’s Pick: The Herd by Andrea Bartz THE HERD is a glamorous, women-only co-working space in New York, founded by THE HERD’s fearless leader, Eleanor Walsh. Eleanor has surrounded herself with two of her best friends from childhood to make this co-working space a wild success and is flattered when a third friend moves back…
Love on Lexington Avenue
Cori’s Pick: Love on Lexington Avenue by Lauren Layne I’ve been reading some more ‘literary’ fiction lately and was feeling like I needed to change it up a bit. I picked up this book without realizing it was the second book of The Central Park Pact Series, so I read the series out of order. …
Such a Fun Age
Cori’s Pick: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid Have you read this book? I desperately need to chat with people about this book. Such a Fun Age is Kiley Reid’s debut novel and has received lots of hype, and rightly so. It is relevant in painting a portrait of race and class in contemporary…
Deacon King Kong
Cori’s Pick: Deacon King Kong by James McBride Hands-down, this is the best book I have read all year. The synopsis: In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front…
Dear Edward
Cori’s Pick: Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano This was one of those books where the author magically captured my heart and made me truly care for the characters. Eddie is twelve when his family, along with 179 other passengers, boards an airplane headed for L.A. But halfway there, tragedy strikes and the plane crashes, and…
Dear Girls
Cori’s Pick: Dear Girls by Ali Wong Comedian Ali Wong has gifted us this book of unfiltered letters to her young daughters and I think we all need to thank her. Full disclosure: it’s vulgar in places and at times it made me blush, but it’s totally real and I loved it! She talks about…
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