Today the Matchmakers team welcomes Adult Summer Reading Coordinator, Jen M! Jen writes: Read, renew, repeat with the 2024 Adult Summer Reading...
Satire at its Finest
Humor, irony, and exaggeration are the three necessary components of the satirical novel, and if this sounds enjoyable to you then I have three...
A Houseful of Hauntings
This month, I thought I’d focus my pleasure reading on haunted house books—but only those that have the word “house” in the title, just for fun!A...
Waiting to be Arrested at Night: A Memoir from Xinjiang
I want to begin this post with a short explanation. This blog post is a companion piece to a post I wrote last year about The Backstreets, the first...
Older Women Can Be Protagonists, Too, You Know
Every romance heroine doesn't have to be in her 20s. Every amateur detective does not have to be a Girl Sleuth. I particularly enjoy novels in which...
Mushrooms and Beetles and Snails, Oh My!
I’ve read several books lately that focus on the tiniest forms of life—some creatures charming and inspiring, others, devastatingly harmful, and...
Hispanic and Latinx books
Today's blog comes from guest author, Michele Hirschfeld, who is highlighting Hispanic and Latinx authors. Anita De Monte Laughs Last, by Xochitl...
Winning Fixes Everything Review: Do you want to play, or do you want to win?
Evan Drellich's Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds created Sports' Biggest Mess is a book about baseball and a team that...
Tragedy to Triumph: Heartbreaking Memoirs That Point Toward Hope
I happen to find tragic memoirs compelling, especially those that end on a note of hope or the promise of redemption. Three memoirs I’ve read...
Post-Halloween Hauntings for Scares That Will Last Past Thanksgiving
I’ve been diving into some paranormal horror novels lately. Here are the latest ghostly reads that I’d recommend for post-Halloween shivers: The...
Cleveland Noir: Dark Fiction from Around the City
For a number of years now, book publisher Akashic Books has been publishing collections of noir fiction short stories set in cities around the...
Celebrity Memoirs: Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Aftertaste
The Matchmakers welcome new Matchmaker Lisa Gordon! Lisa writes: Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci (2021) The pungent odor of sautéed...
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