The Tommyknockers - 3/5 Stars This book has some significant issues, but it's also very good at a few things. The biggest issue is that it's a little too on the nose with so much of the characterization and subplots. It's a little too convenient that, for example, so many of the characters in the … [Read more]
Still relevant
It's another day and here's yet another book I wouldn't have read if not for my list of 50 Books Every Woman Should Read Before She Turns 40. Not only had I never heard of The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home (1989, updated 2012) by Arlie Hochschild and Anne Machung, but I … [Read more]
By the Stars We Hope
Earlier this year narfna posted her review of Record of a Spaceborn Few and in the comments she assured me that even less happens in this third installment of the Wayfarers series. I was delighted. It is generally acknowledged that science fiction takes our current major concerns and conflicts … [Read more]
Thank you emmalita
Cannonball gift exchange is one of my favorite Christmastime traditions and this year my not so secret Santa was our Bingo organizer extraordinaire emmalita! Thank you for Ellie Kemper's My Squirrel Days (my library doesn't have it!), a Michelle Obama coloring book and the Kindle edition of Snoop … [Read more]