Kimmery on...The 7 Books I'm Reading Now
Happy Birthday, 'Merica! In an ideal world, we'd all be relaxing seaside with a great book today, am I right? In case you need...
The Five Most Kick-Ass Books Of Summer*
I won the dork lottery this year: my beloved local library system asked me to accompany them to this May’s BEA conference, held in...
Kimmery’s All-Time Favorite Books, Part 1
My household got slaughtered last week by a vicious, soul-sucking GI virus similar to Ebola. I zombied around without sleep for 898...
The Bees by Laline Paull
Strikingly different. Original. Bizarre. Awe-inspiring. Mystical. These are phrases used to describe Laline Paull’s The Bees, and it’s...
Seveneves by Neil Stephenson
I’m going to veer off in a different direction this week and review what has got to be the weirdest, most epic book I’ve ever read. I’ll...
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
“Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world.” We tend to think of World War II as defined by its...
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Hoo boy. I have been waiting for five years for Jonathan Franzen to release his latest work. First off, let me elaborate as to why I like...