Jessica by Richard Friday Greene Book Review
Aida reviews Jessica by Richard Friday Greene, a moving literary novel about fatherhood, memory, and grief. Rated a Nerdection Excellent Read.
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Success with Grit and Grace by Amy Young Book Review
Being encouraged to lead while repeatedly being questioned about how you lead can wear down even a capable person. Amy Young’s Success with Grit and Grace: How Emerging Women Leaders Rise with Strength, Strategy, and Soul speaks directly to that tension. Written for women developing their leadership identities, it combines encouragement with advice on communication, workplace relationships, and self-advocacy.
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So You Want To Be A Psychotherapist by Linda Soules Book Review
So You Want To Be A Psychotherapist by Linda Soules is a gentle, thoughtful nonfiction guide that introduces young readers to one of the quietest but most meaningful helping professions. Unlike some career books that focus on action, tools, or public achievement, this one turns inward. It shows psychotherapy as work built on listening, patience, emotional steadiness, and the belief that people can change when they are met with care.
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So You Want To Be A Journalist by Linda Soules Book Review
So You Want To Be A Journalist by Linda Soules is a clear, sincere, and quietly inspiring nonfiction guide for young readers who are naturally curious about the world around them. It does not present journalism as something glamorous or easy. Instead, it shows the profession as patient, stubborn, ethical work built on listening closely, checking carefully, and caring enough to keep asking questions.
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So You Want To Be A Lawyer by Linda Soules Book Review
So You Want To Be A Lawyer by Linda Soules is a thoughtful and accessible nonfiction guide that introduces young readers to the world of law with clarity and heart. Rather than presenting lawyers as dramatic courtroom figures who win cases through speeches alone, the book takes a more grounded approach. It shows law as a profession of listening, reading, reasoning, writing, patience, and moral responsibility.
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The Living Temple: How Your Body Heals Itself from the Inside Out by Mehul Hathi Book Review
The Living Temple: How Your Body Heals Itself from the Inside Out by Mehul Hathi is written for readers who have followed treatments, attended appointments, and done what was expected of them, yet still feel managed rather than genuinely well. Inspired partly by the experiences of Hathi’s father and autistic son, the book asks what might become possible when conventional care is accompanied by closer attention to stress, emotion, nourishment, sleep, breath, and identity.
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The Angel: A Chantry Cross Romance by Ellen Wood — A heartfelt second-chance romance full of longing and devotion
Some romances are built on sparks. The Angel: A Chantry Cross Romance is built on memory, regret, and the kind of love that never truly lets go. Ellen Wood’s novel leans fully into the emotional pull of second chances, giving readers a story about first love, painful separation, and what happens when life finally offers two people the opportunity to face what they lost. It is earnest, dramatic, and deeply romantic in a way that will appeal to readers who enjoy emotional intensity and a love story that wears its heart on its sleeve.
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Terminus by Ian Lewis — Cold War espionage with a paranormal edge and a strong sense of atmosphere
Spy fiction tends to live and die by atmosphere, tension, and competence. Readers want to feel the machinery of intelligence at work, but they also want the danger to feel intimate rather than abstract. Terminus understands that balance well. Ian Lewis builds this novel on the bones of a classic Cold War thriller, but gives it an intriguing twist through Soviet parapsychology and the sinister mystery of the numbers station known as Terminus.
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From the Shallow End to the Deep End by AJ Streator — A sonnet collection that turns memory into survival
Poetry collections often live or die by one thing: whether they feel like a collection of disconnected thoughts, or a body of work with an emotional current strong enough to carry the reader through. From the Shallow End to the Deep End succeeds because it clearly belongs to the second category. AJ Streator does not present these ninety-five sonnets as an exercise in form alone. From the beginning, he frames the book as a deeply personal undertaking born from “Darkest Times,” and that context matters because the collection reads like a long emotional excavation of memory, family, faith, fatherhood, identity, regret, and endurance.
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What’s Normal Is When The Emotion Matches The Circumstance By William W. Hedrick, M.D. — A Theory-Heavy Challenge to Modern Psychiatry
Books about mental health often focus on symptoms, treatment, or personal stories. What’s Normal takes a very different route. William W. Hedrick, M.D. approaches the subject by asking a more foundational question: what does it actually mean for an emotional response to be normal? From that point onward, the book becomes a full-scale argument against what the author sees as major flaws in modern psychiatric thinking. Rather than accepting standard diagnostic models as they are, Hedrick proposes his own framework for understanding emotions, emotional illness, and the difference between feelings that fit a situation and feelings that do not.
