#cbr10bingo Listicles Educated has been on the New York Times Combined Print and E-book Nonfiction Best Seller list for over 33 weeks. It is also one of Time Magazine’s Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far Educated: A Memoir is Tara Westover’s riveting account of how she went from growing up home schooled in a survivalist family in Idaho to PhD student of History at Cambridge. Westover is the youngest of seven children raised by parents whose goal was to live “off the grid” and who […]
“When the mind’s filter disappeared, the big picture disappeared with it. There was no forest, only trees. At its worst, there were no trees, either. Just bark.”
The reviews on Uncle Stevie’s latest tome have been mostly similar: a great, suspenseful first half, telling a story about a police investigation into the brutal murder of a child by a seemingly innocent man…and a less successful second half, filled with supernatural elements and a character from earlier novels. Most reviews have pointed out that the story presented in the first half were quite enough for a full novel: local good citizen arrested for horrific crime, town turns against him and his family, regardless […]
Our Histories Build Us (CBR10Bingo)
Confession: I took this book out of the library no less than twice before I managed to read it. I was intimidated by the book, both by its content and its acclaim. It has a near perfect five star rating on Cannonball Read and high rating on Goodreads where literary fiction doesn’t normally do so well. I shouldn’t have been hesitant – the book earns its high rating by being one of the most accessible works of literary and historical fiction I have possibly ever […]
Stories About Fish People Are Actually About MORE Than Just Fish People, You Know?
I actually just heard about this novel from a recent list on Pajiba titled: “6 Romance and YA Novels We’d Like to See Netflix Adapt Following ‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’”, and upon seeing it described as being about a “magical gay fish boy”, I immediately started text-hollering to my best friend about what a big time it is for fish-people/cryptid… lovers (which is one of our running jokes right now, I KNOW it’s not as funny to anyone that isn’t the two […]