I really liked this one when I started it. I was so into this book. I was also listening to a podcast about Pauline Sabin (a woman credited as a major force in repealing prohibition) so digging into a little story about organized crime and booze smuggling in the Depression was right in my sweet spot. Then it jumps forward in time and the focus is on his daughter and her working in the war industry during WWII and that was so cool too and […]
I wasn’t sure I wanted to review this one
This book was like that itch between your shoulder blades you can never quite reach yourself. It was good, but I definitely did not enjoy reading it, if that makes sense. I just wanted it to be over. The very first chapter activates stress even when it essentially “spoils” the whole book – two young children are dead, murdered by their caretaker, their mother hysterical with grief. From there it flashes back in time to tell you how we got here and it is absolutely […]
A solid freshman effort
My introduction to the works of N. K. Jemisin was through her Hugo-Award-winning series The Broken Earth. It’s a series I have been pushing on friends and family since I read it last year because it is a whole nother level of OH MY GOD spectacular and deserves every ounce of praise it receives. Go read it now. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms with what one might call high expectations and was understandably somewhat disappointed. The Broken Earth sets the bar just impassably high and by reading things […]
These are books you finish
The book club I started with my friends has been getting more and more official and we’re getting more input on books from people not me, which is wonderful. It’s also how I ended up reading In the Garden of Beasts because nonfiction has really just not been my particular kettle of fish. That fact remains, but I am glad I read it. William Dodd is a Depression-era university professor who would really just like a little more free time to work on his book. He […]
Experimental af and I loved it
When I was home for Christmas, I took the opportunity to extol to my mother the virtues of my local public library and its available online system for ebooks. I demonstrated by showing her my hold list and, as mothers are wont to do, she had comments on several of my selections. My mom is also a vociferous reader and I do greatly value her opinion, but when she described Lincoln In The Bardo as “weird”, she didn’t mean it in a good way and bless […]
It cleared a low bar
I was overseas last week and did a lot of reading without any posting, hence the flurry now that I’ve returned to my usual internet connection. Of the books I powered through, Euphoria was definitely the winner, but that’s a little bit like being the smartest horse. Euphoria is the story of three anthropologists–Nel, Fen, and Bankston–in the 1930s, working with tribes along the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. It is loosely based on the story of real-life anthropologist Margaret Mead. Mead was a cultural anthropologist, […]
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