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For this blog tour we're looking at a phenomenal book that really draws the reader into its scenery. For this blog tour we're looking at The Edge of Summer by Viola Shipman.

Here's what I had to say on Goodreads:

Solid Look At Family And Secrets. This is a book that instantly transports the reader into its setting, particularly once it gets to the small town Michigan shores of Lake Michigan. But here, things are not always exactly as they seem, and there is a dark family secret lying just beneath the surface. Shipman - a pseudonym using the actual person's own grandmother's name - does a phenomenal job here of showing how small town secrets can fester through generations, and that even when not actually knowing one's own history... history has a way of coming back around. Truly an excellent work, and the only reason for the star deduction is that this book deals pretty heavily with COVID - the reason our main character

Imagine The Outsiders. Now Set It In A Poetry Commune. That's largely how I wound up seeing

I Refuse To Be My [Parent]. Yes, a version of the title line of this review is said in the book. And that was th

Deep And Fascinating Exposition Of The History Of An Idea. Soll is a Professor of History and Accounting, and I'm just a college grad who had ECON 101 as an 18 yo HS Senior / college freshman who then went on to discuss the Austri

Gen Z Mental Health Dang Near Erotica... Romantic Comedy? Up front, there was nothing technically wrong about this story - hence the five stars here. There is nothing for me to hang a star deduction on as objectively wrong here, and indeed there are several things to actively like. Such as the interracial

This week we're looking at arguably the closest Rick Chesler has come to date of telling a t

Solid UK Police Procedural Thriller. I picked up this book because I was invited to based on my reviews of

Ninja Cows! I picked up this book on July 4th because I was reading a book set in

Solid Bybee Romance. Bybee is a fairly prolific romance author and IIRC a former President (or whatever

Racism And Misandry Deeply Mar Otherwise Interesting Concept. The idea behind this book - that a neurotypical Autism Mom and an #ActuallyAutistic mom of Autistic kids get together and have a constructive discussion - is fascinating because o