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Our 2025 Reading Goals

Leggy: Happy New Year! I hope everybody enjoyed their holidays because I definitely did! I was off from the 23rd to the 2nd of January and I had such a good time relaxing and reading. When we wrote our best and worst books of 2024, I was still behind on my Goodreads challenge of reading 70 books, so I spent all my off times in coffee shops and bars just reading. It was honestly the best way to…

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Our Best and Worst Books of 2024

Another year of reading is coming to a close and as always, we share with you what our best and worst books of the year were. Taynement’s Best: “I think of Constance’s hushed voice whenever we were cleaning together. Once some things get dirty they can never be clean again and once some things are broken they can never be fixed.” I stumbled upon this book randomly. I sometimes go to the…

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Book Review: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

���Rich people, thought Judy—she thought this then, and she thinks it now—generally become most enraged when they sense they’re about to be held accountable for their wrongs.” It’s early morning, August 1975 and Barbara Van Laar has gone missing. She’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has…

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Book Review: Here One Moment by Lianne Moriarty

“I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road” It was supposed to be a short, domestic, uneventful flight from Hobart to Sydney. We meet the passengers boarding the plance and get a short description of various characters. All of a sudden mid-flight, an older lady starts walking through the aisles,…

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Book Review: Here One Moment by Lianne Moriarty

“I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road” It was supposed to be a short, domestic, uneventful flight from Hobart to Sydney. We meet the passengers boarding the plance and get a short description of various characters. All of a sudden mid-flight, an older lady starts walking through the aisles,…

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Book Review: Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

“There has never been, in the history of all human interaction, a way for a woman to explain effectively that she’s calm when a man has suggested she isn’t.” In 1980, a wealthy Jewish businessman, Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later and the family moves on with their lives. Two simple minded brothers are…

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Book Review: Hold My Girl by Charlene Carr

Tess and Katherine are two women who could not be any more different but they have one thing in common, they both desperately want to have a child. Katherine is married and has spent most of her life trying to be perfect, obsessing over her home and family looking perfect. The one thing that’s missing is a child. Tess is recently divorced, estranged from her family and generally unhappy. Both…

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Book Review: James by Percival Everett

“Belief has nothing to do with truth.” When enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to sold to a man in New Orleans and separated from his family forever, he decides to hide in nearby Jackson Island until he can decide what to do. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father on that same day. This leads to a collision that leads to Jim being wanted for murder and…

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Book Review: Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan

“When I’m quiet I can hear my heart yearning for impossible things. I want a perfectly pared-down home, and I want to hang on to every scrap of the past. I want a break from my kids without missing a single minute of their lives. I long for a partnership, and I long for freedom. I long to be enmeshed with someone without losing myself. I want all of it.” Ali is trying to start living life again.…

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Book Review: Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan

“I will never stop vomiting with shame.” The Gresham family is hosting the wedding of the century. Their oldest daughter, Augie is getting married but there is so much more going on. The wedding is being orchestrated by the matriarch, Lady Arabella who is heavy on maintaining appearances and spending money. Money they do not have as her husband is hiding the fact that they are in debt. Besides…

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Book Review: Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones

“You are with yourself every day, all day, all night—might as well like yourself.” Leslie Jones is a comedian who is best known for her role on SNL for a couple of years. This memoir describes her life – from her childhood growing up in the South with a military father, her early high school and college days playing basketball, her early stand-up days driving from gig to gig and living from…

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Book Review: The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

“You can’t stay married to someone forever just because they climb out of your attic one afternoon.” Lauren returns to her flat in London late one night to be greeted by her husband, Michael. There is only one problem – she’s not married. She’s never seen Michael in her life. But according to her neighbors, friends and family, this is her husband, they’ve been together for years. As Lauren tries…

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Book Review: How To Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

“A book, I soon learned, was time travel. Each page held irrefutable power.” Born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Sinclair tells us of her upbringing in a very strict Rastafarian household. She tells us the story of being under the thumb of her dad who was basically a Rastafarian zealot and lived in fear 24/7 that his family would be corrupted by the Western world. So much so, that he kept…

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Book Review: Sugar,Baby by Celine Saintclare

“I think of Constance’s hushed voice whenever we were cleaning together. Once some things get dirty they can never be clean again and once some things are broken they can never be fixed.” Agnes is a 21 year old black girl who lives at home with her religious immigrant mother, Constance, and her sister. Agnes is in limbo not knowing what to do with her life so in the meantime, she is cleaning…

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Book Review: The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

Millie, a recent parolee, who is homeless and jobless is desperate to find a job to stay within the conditions of her parole. Desperate, she interviews for a maid position at the Winchesters and is shocked when she gets the job. She wonders how her time in prison and why she was in prison didn’t come up when they ran her background check but nevertheless she is so happy to finally have a job and…

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Book Review: Funny Story by Emily Henry

“The same universe that dispassionately takes things away can bring you things you weren’t imaginative enough to dream up.” Daphne is engaged to Peter and a couple of weeks before their wedding, he comes back from his bachelor’s party and tells her that he is in love with his best friend, Petra. Peter and Petra jet off for a holiday and gives Daphne one week to leave the house Peter bought for…

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Book Review: What Happened To Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez

“We were not that kind of family, the type who spoke politely to each other about where and how we were in pain.” In 1996, Ruthy Ramirez never makes it home from school. Twelve years later, her two sisters, Nina and Jessica are watching a reality TV show, “Catfight” which can basically be described like the real life show, “Bad Girls Club”. They see a girl called Ruby and are convinced that it…