The BookFetish Blog

I devoured and relished Emily Giffin’s Heart of the Matter.  There are so many reasons why I love Giffin’s books, not the least of which is that she tells compelling stories. But it is more than that.  It’s that she creates such believable and relatable characters who face believable and relatable situations.  In Heart of the […]

Once in a while, the Fates conspire to show you something you need to see. Perhaps you’ve fallen into your life. Maybe you’re living someone else’s bliss.  Or maybe you simply woke up one day and said, there’s more than this,whatever this is.  And you’ve finally, finally admitted to yourself that while you’ve been blessed […]

A line from Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer” is running through my head: “Who-ah, we’re halfway there…” That’s right. This is book 26.  I’m halfway through my goal of reading 52 books this year.  I’m excited to be at this point. But enough about that… on to the book! Evermore is another young adult […]

I intended originally to include Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in only the list of other books I read this year, since there are already two other Harry related posts in the blog.  But then some friends pointed out that this weekend is the assumed commemoration of Voldemort’s downfall,  and I had only about […]

Book 24, another audio book.  I loved Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Part of the reason I liked that one was that I was so familiar with the story of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice that it was a neat experience to see how Zombies were woven into the story.  I was a […]