Book Review: Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing This collection of essays by Lauren Hough doesn’t pull any punches. It doesn’t try to teach a lesson or force a happy ending. It just is what it is. The story of a complicated life. […]
One of my 2021 Goals, along with reading 52 books, is to write a short review of each book on Goodreads. In most cases it’s just a sentence or two, but better than just star ratings. Here are the 9 books I […]
Book Review: The Same River Twice: A Memoir of Dirtbag Backpackers, Bomb Shelters, and Bad Travel by Pam Mandel My Rating: 4 Stars This book captures well the confusion and uncertainty of people in their late teens and early twenties. For the […]
Perfectly Impossible by Elizabeth Topp My Rating: 4 Stars This was a fun read. It was actually my first “walking around” book of the year– you know, the one you carry around with you because you don’t want to stop reading. Anna […]
A Deadly Edition by Victoria Gilbert My rating: 4 of 5 stars A fun and fast-paced read from author, Victoria Gilbert and Crooked Lane Books. This cozy mystery is book number five in the Blue Ridge Library Mystery series. Amy Webber is […]
Siobhan O’Brien is the unlikely name of the Korean-American private detective at the heart Sung J. Woo’s Skin Deep. Sioban takes on a missing persons case involving a family friend that comes with a multitude of complications. She gets frustrated by all […]
In the most convenient of coincidences, I began reading Becoming Duchess Goldblatt at the same time as I was reading The Circle by David Eggers. Both books are about being connected through social media but where the Duchess forms genuine meaningful connections, […]
History’s accounts of the Holocaust can make it seem that once the gates to the camps opened and the survivors were liberated, the war was over. But that was not the case for everyone.
I joined Reading Rush 2019 this year, formerly BookTubeathon. This was my first attempt at a readathon. The Challenge was: Read a book with purple on the cover. Read a book with a non-human main character. Read and watch a book to […]
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind Harriet A. Washington The issue of environmental racism is one that many are sadly unaware of. There is a great deal of ignorance around the fact that where […]