The BookFetish Blog

This latest book was a listen for me, rather than a read, and in that vein, this review of Sadie will include my thoughts on both the plot and the audioboook. From the Audible description: A missing girl on a journey of revenge and a Serial-like podcast following the clues she’s left behind. Sadie hasn’t had an […]

I’m relatively sure Michelle Obama’s Becoming doesn’t need a publisher’s summary. It’s simply her story, from growing up in the South Side of Chicago to her tenure as First Lady of the United States. I really enjoyed this one. Off the bat, you should know that political rhetoric and policy play a very small role in […]

I have enjoyed many of Ruth Ware’s books, and took The Lying Game with me on a recent vacation. You can see from the summary why this one is intriguing. “From the instant New York Times bestselling author of blockbuster thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 comes a chilling new novel of friendship, secrets, and the […]

Bad Blood gave me a reading hangover. I stayed up much too late reading it because it hooked me from the first page. From the Publisher’s Summary In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical […]

My cousin recommended Karen White’s The Night The Lights Went Out  and I read it over two days at the very end of 2018. From the Publisher’s Summary: Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of Sweet Apple, Georgia. It’s not her first time starting over, but her efforts at a new beginning […]