Stay tuned for a very special book surprise coming in December! (If I say it out loud, then I'll get it done. Right?) Book of the month: The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson Hill House is THE ghost story of the 20th century and a perfect atmospheric Halloween read (despite the fact that it …
Tag: book reviews
Books, September 2019
September's book bounty leads to October's challenge: review all these books in just two sentences each. I hoped brevity would be the soul of wit, but instead, just exacerbated my tendency to misuse parentheses. Book of the month: The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller * When I say that The Song of Achilles was nearly …
Books, July 2019
As you have no doubt heard, local bookstores are on the way out, millennials don't read, and also libraries are a waste. Of course, common sense is not so common and a citation is needed on those claims. That said, Amazon controls about 2/3 of book sales and something like 90%+ of ebook sales, and …
Books, June 2019
Head over to the other post for the mid-2019 analysis. Book of the month: Circe, Madeline Miller I have a confession to make: I accidentally joined a book club - that's not the confession, sometimes life's just like that - and I have spent three months not writing about the books from book club! But …
Books, May 2019
You know the feeling of returning a library book, when there's people in the hold queue after you, and you know they're about to get the notification their book is ready for them? Especially if it's an ebook, and they'll get the book itself literally the instant you return it? If you don't, I suggest …
Books, March 2019
The Hugo and Nebula award nominees are out this month! In addition to the many nominees I have read this year, I also am a HUGE fan of nominee Lindsay Ellis's video essays, and am just as much NOT a fan of the Hobbit movies as she is and extensively explains in her nominated piece. …
Books, February 2019
I don't purposely read multiple installments from a series in a month so I only write about it once... but I also don't not do that. Featured book of the month:March, Books 1-3, John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell Before John Lewis was a US Representative, he was one of the most prominent leaders …
