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Book 2: Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
This is one of the most hauntingly beautiful novels I have read. I had some inclinations of how beautiful it was from reading the synopsis and reading Robert's review and author post over at 101...
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Book 37: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
I need to stop saying I don’t like nonfiction and start saying I enjoy immersive nonfiction. It seems the majority of nonfiction works that I do like are those that delve deeper into societal issues...
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Book 39: Veronika Decides to Die (And On the Seventh Day #2) – Paulo Coelho
I had a copy of The Devil and Miss Prym and planned to read it, but when I pulled it off the shelf I found out it was the part of the And On the Seventh Day trilogy after By the River … Continue reading →
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Book 40: The Devil and Miss Prym (And On the Seventh Day #3) – Paulo Coelho
Of the three books in the On the Seventh Day trilogy, this was my favorite. It has been almost two years since I read By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept and Veronika Decides to Die was too...
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Book 42: Her Dark Curiosity (The Madman’s Daughter #2) – Megan Shepherd
It is very rare that a second novel, let alone a middle novel in a trilogy, can surpass the first. In this case, not only has Shepherd done it, she’s surpassed an incredibly well written debut novel...
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An Evening with Rebecca Skloot
So this sounds a lot fancier than it was. I’d love to say I sat down one-on-one and picked her brain about what is arguably one of the mos successful book responses I’ve ever written for this blog. And...
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Book 413: The Emperor’s Soul – Brandon Sanderson
DAMN you Mormons and your great Science Fiction/Fantasy! That’s about 25% fact and 75% unadulterated conjecture. Before I go into that (you can skip the next two paragraphs if you’re not interested),...
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Book 429: The Arm of the Starfish (O’Keefe Family #1) – Madeleine L’Engle
I decided to go down the full L’Engle Murray/O’Keefe rabbit hole. It may take a while to finish with other books burning holes in my kindle/on my shelf, but I will finish them! I wasn’t as sold on this...
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Book 432: The Stranger – Harlan Coben
WHOA. Like really WHOA. It’s books like this that make me think I should give up my list of all the books I want to read and juts read thrillers and mainstream fiction! Who needs literary fiction or...
View ArticleBook 565: Superhero Ethics – Travis Smith
With my vested interest in the multi-billion dollar Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) (aka I see all of the films as they’re released) and my passing interest in the DC universe now Wonder Woman has made...
View ArticleBook 664: The Cost-Benefit Revolution – Cass R. Sunstein
What. A. Doozie. Seriously, why do I decide to read the densest books EVER at the holidays and the beginning of the year? Really, I should’ve read this last year when I requested it from the publisher...
View ArticleBook 678: Blowout – Rachel Maddow
My jaw legit hurt after I was reading this because my mouth kept hanging open at the sheer audacity of the companies, politicians, and countries in this book. Seriously though, let’s just say that,...
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