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 […]
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 […]
This was a pretty productive reading month. I actually managed to read ten books this months which is maybe the most I’ve read in a month. Granted, there were a couple of them including The Artist’s Way and The Four Hour Work […]
Enjoy watching television shows and movies about the FBI like Quantico, The Americans, The Informant, or Wolf of Wall Street? Ever wonder how accurately the bureau is portrayed? You can find out in Jerri Williams new book, FBI Myths and Misconceptions: A […]
Good question. There are probably hundreds of ways writers make money either as a full-time job or a side gig. Think of all the places you see words in a day — from the writing on the back of your shampoo bottle […]