Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was auto-buy authors. Even though I don't really buy books, I do have an unofficial list of authors that catch my eye whenever I see their name on a book spine—like, "ooooh, person has another new book? Must add!" … Continue reading Top Ten: Auto-Add Authors
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
Review: Call Them by Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit
Title: Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)Author: Rebecca SolnitRating: ★★★½Summary: In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police … Continue reading Review: Call Them by Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit
Review: The Mother of All Questions
Title: The Mother of All QuestionsAuthor: Rebecca SolnitRating: ★★★★Summary: In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more. Note: … Continue reading Review: The Mother of All Questions
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