Blockers by Michael Lewis Review, Gripping Proof Prevention Is Fragile
Blockers by Michael Lewis is a book about the people whose best work is invisible: the civil servants who stop … Read more
Book Reviews
Book reviews and full-spoiler summaries of fiction and nonfiction, from classics like Don Quixote to this year’s releases. Each review gives a quick verdict, explains the ending or the argument, and weighs strengths against weaknesses.
Sophia Bush Memoir And I Will Tell You Mine Skips the Gossip but Hits Harder Than Expected
Sophia Bush’s memoir And I Will Tell You Mine is not the tabloid recap its headlines promised. Flatiron published it … Read more
A Court of Splintered Harmony by Sarah J. Maas and the Ties That Bind
A Court of Splintered Harmony by Sarah J. Maas asks a surprisingly intimate question for a fantasy about a possible … Read more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Why Pip Is Ashamed of Joe
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, first serialized in 1860–61, has a remarkably precise way of describing class shame. A girl … Read more
David Copperfield Drags in Places, Yet Its Child Poverty Still Cuts
David Copperfield is Charles Dickens’s long, funny, heartbreaking novel about an orphaned boy who starts washing bottles in a London … Read more
It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover: Review, Summary & Ending Explained
It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover arrives as the long-awaited sequel to It Ends with Us, picking up exactly … Read more
Love, Like Apples by Jeff Zentner Review, Ending Explained, Verdict
Love, Like Apples by Jeff Zentner is a 400-page novel about a Tennessee orchard boy who becomes a puppeteer on … Read more
God Created the Integers: Hawking’s 2,500-Year Map of the Equations That Built Our World
God Created the Integers reveals Stephen Hawking’s curated selection of 31 mathematical masterpieces spanning 2,500 years, from Euclid’s axiomatic geometry … Read more
America’s Golden Age by Newt Gingrich Review Bright Promise or Risk?
America’s Golden Age by Newt Gingrich arrives as a bold political forecast that links Trumpism to a projected era of … Read more
WTF America?! Book Review and Summary by Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy by Ben Meiselas, Brett Meiselas, and Jordy Meiselas … Read more
Miss Wolcott’s Ghost Review Finds Penny’s Best Plot and a Soft Middle
This Miss Wolcott’s Ghost review gives you the answer first. Louise Penny’s 21st Armand Gamache novel is a gripping, tender … Read more
The Family Cross by James Patterson Review, Plot and Ending Explained
The Family Cross by James Patterson is an Alex Cross thriller that spends as much time beside Nana Mama’s hospital … Read more
The Hidden Persuaders Is Flawed and Dated, Yet Its Warning Still Lands
The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard is a 1957 exposé of how advertisers, political strategists and corporate managers used psychoanalysis … Read more
Brave New World Revisited Gets Key Facts Wrong, Yet Still Feels Urgent
Is Brave New World Revisited still worth reading in 2027? Yes, though not because Huxley forecast the future well. He … Read more
When God Doesn’t Fix It, Laura Story Finds Hope in a Broken Story
When God Doesn’t Fix It is Laura Story’s memoir about a brain tumor that was removed, a recovery that went … Read more
Shoe Dog Shows Nike Nearly Went Bust, and I Loved Every Page
Shoe Dog is the most honest business memoir I have read in years, mostly because Phil Knight admits how often … Read more
The Hard Thing About Hard Things Review From Crisis to Better Work
The Hard Thing About Hard Things is worth reading if you want a candid account of leading a business when … Read more
How to Face the End of the World Starts Bleak, Ends Strangely Calm
How to Face the End of the World is a good place to start if you want a calm answer … Read more
In the Shadow of Eight Review: Fame, Family, and a Lost Childhood
In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood by Collin Gosselin is a memoir about the painful … Read more
Jazz by Toni Morrison Is a Novel That Refuses to Sit Still
Jazz by Toni Morrison does not begin with a plot. It begins with a voice that has already decided what … Read more
Paradise by Toni Morrison Review, Ending Explained and Honest Verdict
Paradise by Toni Morrison is a 1997 novel about nine men from an all-Black Oklahoma town who raid a nearby … Read more