An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month.
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Mentioned in this episode:
The Searcher by Tana French
Genres: Contemporary literary fiction
Read if you like: rural settings and classic rural characters, fish out of water stories, Tana French’s breathtaking skill of writing lush, vivid settings
Also of note: Our podcast interview with Tana will publish this week!
FBC rating: 3.5 stars
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
Genres: biography
Read if you like: biographies that tie together pop culture and a person’s history, reading more about the Supreme Court and how they make their decisions, democracy
Also of note: This reads a bit like a scrapbook, with lots of art and artifacts, and less like a traditional biography.
FBC rating: 3.5 stars
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
Genres: Western novella
Read if you like: quick reads about queer librarians in the wild West, books that race through the plot, books that start as a great idea and then don’t really execute
Also of note: Honestly, this book wasn’t that great, but it was fun.
FBC rating: 2.5 stars
The Lady Upstairs by Halley Sutton
Genres: fiction, noir
Read if you like: Jessica Jones, Veronica Mars, revenge against Harvey Weinstein
Also of note: Interview with the author coming soon!
FBC rating: 4 stars
You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria
Genres: Romance
Read if you like: Jane the Virgin, diverse Latinx representation, romance novels with tons of heart (and heat)
Also of note: This was one of our members’ top suggestions for Latinx Voices month!
FBC rating: 4 stars
The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper
Genres: Memoir
Read if you like: yoga memoirs a la May I Be Happy by Cyndi Lee or Love You Hard by Abby Maslin, medical dramas a la E.R. or Grey’s Anatomy
Also of note: I really wanted this to have a bit more depth.
FBC rating: 3 stars
Written in Starlight by Isabel Ibañez
Genres: YA, Fantasy
Read if you like: the first book in this series Woven in Moonlight, Indiana Jones movies but wish they starred a magical teenage girl instead, Bear Grylls but in the Amazon
Also of note: Check out our interview with the author here!
FBC rating: 4 stars
Somewhere in the Unknown World by Kao Kalia Yang
Genres: Memoir, Non-fiction
Read if you like: After the Last Border by Jessica Goudeau, The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya, learning more about the refugee experience
Also of note: Interview with the author coming soon!
FBC rating: 4 stars
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