Introducing: 5-Star Reviews

2020 was tough on us. Amidst all the bad news and despair I had no energy or motivation to write creatively. I did, however, get lost–happily, deliciously, utterly–in stacks and stacks of books.

Now, with the new year dawning, I am venturing back into writing in a small way by penning book reviews. These will be books from every genre, fiction, non-fiction, new and old, whatever grabs my interest. Really, the only thing they will have in common is that they will all be worthy of 5-Star reviews. It takes exceptional writing to inspire me to rave about a book. And I will need to want to rave about it in order to sit down and write about it.

First up will be a recent read entitle The Dog Stars, recommended to me by a friend with similarly–let’s call them “gritty”–tastes. It’s appropriate, I think, because it’s set in a world devastated by a pandemic. Reading it not only made me appreciate how fortunate we still are in spite of everything, it also inspired my hope for the future of humanity.