Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News by Alec Karakatsanis
"Police leaders do not want to talk about the everyday brutality of the punishment bureaucracy. Condemning [Derek] Chauvin as a 'bad apple' is a safer tactic. But it is not 'bad apple' police officers who make 10.6 million arrests every year and who, since 1980, have helped quintuple the rate of … [Read more]
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Isn’t that the very definition of power? Watching people kill themselves over something that means nothing to you? ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo ...do yourself a favor and learn to grab life by the balls, dear. Don’t be so tied up in trying to do the right thing when … [Read more]
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
Trigger warning: Animal death. So this was a weird one. I read elsewhere this book describes the "Big Bang Theory" better than any other supernatural/horror novel and I have to say I agree. It also is very easy with the description of mountains, chasms, and strange beings, to see how this … [Read more]
Not in My Book by Katie Holt
Here’s the problem - this is a well-written book. The craft is there. But... I just couldn’t care about what is happening with the characters and kept having to make myself pick it back up between reading other books, which is not at all how I normally approach Romance books. There were times where … [Read more]
Infinity and Me by Kate Hosford
Infinity and Me by Kate Hosford has been on my TBR list for so long I forgot it was even on it. Therefore when I had the opportunity to read it, it was like I had never known it was there. It was a mystery of why I had a copy. But once I read I realized that it was not just because of the … [Read more]
The Women of Wild Hill by Kirsten Miller
While I didn’t rate The Change as 5 stars (there were some pacing issues in the middle), I quite enjoyed it and have been thinking back to it quite a bit since reading it last December (even more so in the last few months given certain political topics). As a result, I was looking forward to Kirsten … [Read more]
