http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R82VrSKUeXg Featuring books I've been lucky enough to bring home for free! An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank GreenBig Little Lies by Liane MoriartyExit, Pursued by a Bear by E.K. JohnstonThe Leftovers by Tom Perrotta (NOT Peralta -- I got B99 on the brain I guess 🤷♀️)The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick … Continue reading Book Haul: “Freebie” Fiction
Monthly Wrap-Up: December 2018
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWEG60yQl7o I read four books last month! Giant Days, vol. 7 by John AllisonHerding Cats by Sarah AndersenWhat If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam SilveraYou Know You Want This: "Cat Person" and Other Stories by Kristen Roupenian
Monthly Wrap-Up: September/October 2018
Did'ya know that I post videos on YouTube?? If not, check out my latest video below! The books discussed are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3suvPQzA9qI The Broken Vow by Scott Westerfeld (★★★★)Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit (★★★½)Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin (★★)One Day in December … Continue reading Monthly Wrap-Up: September/October 2018
Monthly Wrap-Up: June & July 2018
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUZpp7Y891U This wrap-up is a little late (lol), but I read four books over the last two months: Inferno by Dan Brown (★★★½)Not that Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture ed. by Roxane Gay (★★★★)Notes from My Captivity by Kathy Parks (★★★½)What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine (★★★★) What did you read??
Monthly Wrap-Up: May 2018
I read three books last month: Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe Women's Pain by Abby NormanBrazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope BagieuNeverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl What did YOU read last month??
Video Review: Biographies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F13U7QIN9xs In which I come back after two years (TWO YEARS) and review The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs and give it 4 stars because it was an “insightful and intimate portrait” of one man’s life and an all-around great read. … Continue reading Video Review: Biographies!
New video: A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
In which I review A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre and give it 2-2.5 stars because it was "interesting but not interesting enough," the narrative was slow and jumpy, and the ending was anticlimactic. Watch it below or check out my other videos at YouTube.
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