Month: July 2025

• “The Lake Escape” by Jamie Day

  

  “The Lake Escape” by Jamie Day is a summer book: something you can quickly pick up and read sitting in a beach chair and sipping iced tea, then promptly put it aside when a seagull tries to steal your snack.  In the style of recently popular movies and novels, “rich people behaving badly”, the story…

  Hanna

  July 30, 2025

• “The Bewitching” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

  

  The latest novel by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a dark, atmospheric horror/mystery, consisting of three clearly defined storylines. Minerva, a young Mexican woman, is a student at a New England college, writing her thesis. It’s 1998, and strange things happen. She often feels a sense of foreboding, as if she has been watched. At one point,…

  Hanna

  July 23, 2025