Recently Amazon had a huge Agatha Christie sale for Kindle, so naturally I stocked up. I made a feeble attempt in my tween years to get into Christie’s mysteries, but back then I hadn’t quite the love for British culture of the past, mysteries, or old asexual detectives that I do now. I think I tried to read And Then There Were None once, but I skipped to the end after a few chapters just to find the culprit (much to my current embarrassment). Cut […]
Ear Worms and Biography
Do you ever just know the moment you start paying attention to someone or something that you are a huge fan, without much information to explain why? That’s how I feel about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I am in my late 30s so I was around during her confirmation to the Supreme Court, but I was also a teenager who couldn’t have cared less about politics. To be honest all I remember about the Clinton administration is he was charming, cheated on Hillz, everyone hated him […]
British WWII Drama is My Jam
I love British things and have a fascination with anything World War II so naturally I was drawn to Chris Cleave’s novel Everyone Brave is Forgiven. Everyone is the tale of a handful of young friends through the first few years of World War II in London and beyond. It has love rectangles, death, racism, smoking, morphine and bombs all in one tidy package. The novel opens with our heroine, Mary North, going to the war office to volunteer to help almost as soon as […]
Squad Goals
I’m a grown up now, so they say, so it’s been a really long time since I have been able to just pick up a book and become completely absorbed in it. For the most part, the days when I could polish off 200 pages in one sitting are long gone. Especially now that the hubs and I have our little one, I find myself sneaking in chapters when I can. Tana French’s The Likeness, however, grabbed my attention from page one and wouldn’t let […]