Carmen's Book Adventure

Great news! My fabulous friend Rachel and I have started a website/podcast! It's called Bubbly Bibbly, and you can learn all about...

Because of several frustrations and challenges with BlogSpot formatting, I have moved my book blog to https://carmensbookadventure.com/ ...

  Summary: Willow is desperately hungry for clues to the family life that preceded her, and especially Polly's life pre-Willow. Why...

This is what many of us middle-agers think of when anyone mentions the public libraries of yesteryear. However, libraries have come a long ...

You've heard it before: knowledge is power. The most entertaining way to gain knowledge is to read. You don't have to read a physi...

It's National Library Week, y'all! The theme this year is "Libraries Lead". Take this week to visit your local library,...

Summary: In the newest addition to the universally beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the charming and ever-resourceful Preci...

Summary: In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet....

Summary: An obsessive young woman has been waiting half her life—since she was twelve years old—for this moment. She has planned. Resear...

It is unusual for me to choose back-to-back books in which I invoke the "100-page rule"; but alas, there are too many (far, far to...

Summary: A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world a...

Summary: In this tightly wound story, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of...

Summary: In this deeply suspenseful and irresistibly unnerving debut novel, a man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm. ...

I have read one of these books, and loved it. Now on to the others!! Have you read any of the six? Below, find the full shortlist, li...