family book club: icy sparks

Normally I’m begging for authors not to explicitly spell things out for their readers. We’re smart, and we can tell who is sad without having to read “John is sad.” But in Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio (Kindle version here), I needed some things to be spelled out. It was an easy read, but one thatContinue reading “family book club: icy sparks”

family book club: middlesex

We met a few weekends ago to discuss our #familybookclub pick, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Kindle version here). We used Google hangouts, and it worked pretty well! It was so fun to see everyone and to get together from our homes all over the country. And it didn’t hurt that my adorable nephews jumped on toContinue reading “family book club: middlesex”