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 […]
The Honest Enneagram: Know Your Type, Own Your Challenges, Embrace Your Growth by Sarajane Case My rating: 3 of 5 stars If you follow Enneagram and Coffee on Instagram, you will recognize the author Sarajane Case. The book is thorough and can […]
The Night Swim by Megan Goldin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Strong trigger warning to anyone sensitive to discussion of rape and sexual assault. Some descriptions are graphic and could be upsetting. Choosing the audiobook rather than a print copy book […]
Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear by Matthew Salesses My rating: 3 of 5 stars Matt Kim is a man who feels himself slowly disappear. People bump into him in the street as if they can’t see him and his actions appear to have no […]
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 […]