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The Song of Achilles
I just finished up some work travel, during which I seemed to have terrible reading luck and suffered through one bad book choice after another–overly-dense historical non-fiction, some ridiculous...
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Code Name Verity
I’ve been home sick from work for a couple of days now, and while I am tired of coughing and sick of my couch, I did get a chance to finish an AMAZING book: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein. This...
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Grave Mercy
Have you been thinking that there are not enough young adult novels out there about nuns who kill people in the name of the god of death? Well then, I have the book for you! But seriously, I really...
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Dark Triumph
By Robin LaFevers Kinsey recommended the first in the His Fair Assassin series, Grave Mercy, just a couple of weeks ago as a fun historical romance about deadly nuns. I was at the library when I read...
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson 2004 read by Sean Mangan This book is awesomely hilarious. Hilarious, if, you know, you can get past the very real horror that is mixed in with the craziness....
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The Secret Rooms
I have been in a reading rut since January–I haven’t been able to get into anything, the things I do read are so slow and dragging I don’t want to recommend them, it’s all been very meh. But I...
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Longbourn
Pride and Prejudice is my very favorite book. It says so right in my bio for this site. I’ve read it dozens of times and love every bit. But I’m not overly precious about adaptations or modern takes–I...
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How To Cook a Wolf
I can’t remember why I requested How to Cook a Wolf from the library. It must have been recommended online somewhere and I’m sure that the kick-ass title caught my eye, but by the time it came around...
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World War Z
World War Z By Max Brooks 2007 So I “read” this as an audio book that was marked as unabridged, but does appear to have lacked a few sections from the original book written in 2006. I now need to go...
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Books for the New America
So, 2016, huh? It’s been quite a year. I feel like I’ve been just barely hanging on since the election. But while I needed some recovery time to mourn and come to terms with what had happened, it’s...
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The Essex Serpent
I was in London earlier this summer and the book of the moment, the book piled up in store displays and advertised in posters around town, was The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry. I was worried that this...
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Dear Mrs. Bird
I am an absolute sucker for books about the Blitz. Something about the combination of London, historical fiction, the drama of WWII–I will read just about anything the features the word “Blitz” in the...
View ArticleWhat She Ate
Current events at the moment seem specifically designed to fill me with rage, so at this point I am generally looking for escape in the books I read. I thought that What She Ate by Laura...
View ArticleCode Name Verity ALERT
YOU GUYS. THERE IS A FOLLOW-UP TO CODE NAME VERITY. I have no idea how I missed this, but Elizabeth Wein’s Rose Under Fire is a companion to one of the best, and most heart breaking, things I read last...
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Graphic novels on systematic oppression
I was in a mood the last time I was at the library and these are the three other graphic novels I got along with Freedom Hospital, and all of them are about dealing with systematic oppression. Not...
View ArticleAgrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
Over the past few weeks, as I have been telling people how much I liked this historical biography of a Roman empress, I have gotten some very skeptical responses. And I get it–it doesn’t sound like...
View ArticleReading Through the Pandemic
So, it’s been a while. 2020, huh? I may have aged 20 years since February. Everyone hanging in there? While I have definitely spent my share of this pandemic doom-scrolling, playing a truly astounding...
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illustrated travelogues
These books make me yearn for the open road. I don’t really enjoy hiking and I haven’t traveled much in a while even before the whole world went into various levels of quarantine but having...
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Who Is Ana Mendieta? by Redfern & Caron
Who Is Ana Mendieta?by Christine Redfern & Caro Caronintroduction by Lucy R. Lippard2011 This is a relatively short but extremely full and dense graphic novel. It’s a biography of an artist, but...
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The 1619 Project: Born on the Water, by Hannah-Jones, Watson, and Smith
The 1619 Project: Born on the Waterwritten by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watsonillustrated by Nikkolas Smith2021 This is a children’s picture book that was part of The 1619 Project and it is...
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