The BookFetish Blog

Tanya J. Peterson’s novel Leave of Absence is one I read in 2013 and one that made my list of favorites last year. Peterson’s newest novel, My Life In A Nutshell is equally compelling, telling the story of Brian and Abigail. Brian is brilliant, but suffers from severe, crippling anxiety that causes him to dread contact […]

Megan Cyrulewski’s memoir Who Am I? How My Daughter Taught Me to Let Go and Live Again is loaded on my Kindle app and I have it in queue to read. Megan is on a blog tour now for her book, and since I’m excited about reading it, I wanted to tell you a little […]

The story of the FLDS and Warren Jeffs has long fascinated me. With a plethora of books  to choose from about the sect/cult and it’s deranged leader, what drove me to Prophet’s Prey was Jon Krakauer’s affiliation with the book. I enjoy Krakauer’s books and respect the research and detail he puts into them. While […]

Remember the days before GPS? Before even mapquest? When you actually had to pick up a map or an atlas to figure out where you were going? Did you ever think about maps much beyond that- a mechanism to get you from “here” to “there”? I hadn’t. But reading Michael Blanding’s The Map Thief has […]

As a reader, I’m always excited for hear that Laurel Osterkamp has a new book coming out. With American Angst we get more stories from our heroines of November Surprise and The Holdout. American Angst is a tightly woven set of vignettes about Lucy, trying to balance her life and her relationship with husband Monty; and […]