About two months ago, which tells you how far behind I am on my reviews, Hurricane Irma was bearing down on Florida. Each day we watched the cone move further and further west, until it looked like it was going to come right up the west coast and in to Tampa Bay. And each day, I packed more things into bags and suitcases, until finally, on Friday afternoon, they declared a mandatory evacuation of my entire town. I went home to collect my kid and […]
Sometimes We Know the Closest to Us the Least
I would never have picked this book up on my own, but I’m glad I stumbled upon this read. Mothers and Other Strangers looks at the relationship between mothers and daughters in a new and interesting way. Elsie is the only child of a narcissist mother with a compulsive lying issue. We start the story at the end, when Elise is called back to her hometown to find that her mother died of a heart attack. Elise has had a less-than-healthy relationship with her mother […]
Gifts!
Lookit what came in my mail yesterday!
Book exchange
My book exchange gift came on Saturday. I’m so happy. Love these, and I’m looking forward to reading them. Thank you very much SisterCyote.
A good candidate for my worst book of the year
Spoiler warning! This review will contain plot spoilers, because for me to be able to work through my various thoughts and feeling about the plot (which was quite dumb), I will need to spoil bits of it. You don’t actually want to read this book anyway, I promise, so view the spoilers as more of a favour than a problem. Ashley Claughbane is the fourth son in a noble family from the Isle of Man (or Wight – I don’t entirely remember, and I can’t be […]
We should all be feminists. That’s pretty much a ‘duh’ statement, yea?
I started reading this essay by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie many months ago, when I felt inspired to download it. It is very simply written as it was originally a TED talk delivered by the author. She gave very clear examples, with some humor and snark, on why it is absolutely silly to deny women equal rights to exist in the world they inhabit. Halfway through, I stopped, and didn’t pick it up until last week. While much of the “rah rah feminism” sentiment still resonated, […]
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