The BookFetish Blog

Alex Michaelides’ The Silent Patient was a perfect mountain weekend read. From the publisher’s summary: The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she […]

I listened to The Tattooist of Auschwitz for my Girls Book Club, and frankly, with the growing rise in global anti-Semitism, I think a whole lot of people would benefit from reading this story. From the Publisher’s Summary: In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. […]

Ali Rizvi’s memoir, The Atheist Muslim, provides a first-hand look at the struggle of an Islamic being non-believer in a world where anti-Muslim sentiment still runs rampant. From the publisher’s summary: In much of the Muslim world, religion is the central foundation upon which family, community, morality, and identity are built. The inextricable embedment of […]

Earlier this year, I attended a conversation with Jodi Picoult and Emily Giffin as part of the book tour for A Spark of Light. Earlier that day, Brett Kavanaugh had been confirmed to the Supreme Court. A significant part of the conversation was about the accusations against Justice Kavanaugh, and the implications for Roe V Wade with Kavanaugh on […]

Jeffrey Rinek’s In The Name of the Children is definitely not a read for everyone. It’s heavy subject matter: child murders and abductions that Rinek worked in his days as an FBI agent. But for those who like this genre, this is one I recommend. Rinek recounts his cases in a matter of fact way. He’s not salacious in what he […]