My sisters Girl Scout Troop went to DC many years ago. I was an older scout and considered chaperone material. I assumed (right or wrong) the girls just saw it as a time to get away from school (considering how young they were and being typical kids). I was thinking “OMG I’m going to see the White House! I’m going to see the Vietnam Memorial” (those were my two “must see” items). While seeing the White House was fun (though we missed the last tour) […]
Speak Out for Women’s Rights
A Lady Has the Floor: Belva Lockwood Speaks Out for Women’s Rights. But that was not the end of her story. It was the middle of Lockwood’s journey to be one of the first women lawyers and to present a case at the Supreme Court. Kate Hannigan and illustrator Alison Jay tell the story of Lockwood in picture book format. Jay’s unusual style of illustrating can be a little awkward for this subject, but it is still amazing. The “cracked paint look” gives you a […]
Bigotry and fundamentalism make for a bad mix
I’m on the books as being a fan of Jon Krakauer, so as someone who is not very familiar with Mormonism beyond that South Park Episode, I was beyond curious to read his take on the history of Mormonism and the ways that certain ingrained aspects of the faith can somewhat naturally progress into the type of extremism that causes two brothers to brutally murder their sister in-law and her child because they believed they were following God’s orders. In general, one of the ways […]
More Than Just a Gender Swapping – The Novel is Filled With Interesting Women
I have never actually read an original Sherlock Holmes novel or story. I think we read a children’s version of The Hound of Baskerville at one point but it was definitely a simplified version since it was in 6th grade, during our second year of English language instruction at my German school (I of course was already fluent but it’s not like there was an alternative course I could have taken so it made more sense for me to just be in the class with […]
But Is It a Book I’ll Remember?
I really enjoyed the first novel in the A Season for Scandal series even if I quickly forgot the name of the author and the novel until I saw a recent review by Malin for the novella. With that reminder, I was finally able to discover the additional novels in the series, and jump back in. Elise deVries was introduced in the previous novel as one of the partners of Chegarre and Associates, a private agency to help the rich deal with their problems discreetly […]
Family.
The great thing about England is that there are book exchanges to be found everywhere. Free books after you’ve done your grocery shopping? Like. Could England be anymore unreal. I’d seen some reviews for Karen Joy Fowler’s We are all completely beside ourselves I don’t remember the reviews per se, just a sense of good reviews and a very yellow cover. So I picked it up at my local tesco’s and it sat in my TBR pile for quite a while. Until […]
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