I’ve been waiting for about two months for the library audiobook hold to come through, and it finally arrived! And then, of course, I was busy with podcasts and other listening flotsam before I made my way to Carrie Fisher’s final book. It was a bittersweet experience, partly because it was the last, and partly because it wasn’t the best. Fisher discovered some old diaries that she had written while filming the first Star Wars film and decided to write a book about that experience, […]
Looking on with a shame and confusion we can’t identify.
I have tried diligently to avoid trailers for the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, because I wanted to avoid the hype and feeling disappointed (I’m *very* disappointed Hulu renewed it for a second season, because it should be a one-and-done deal. Like, where else are you going to take this story? ANYWHOO). I decided before I started the Hulu series that I needed to re-read the book, because it had been about 5-6 years. HOLY SHITSNACKS YOU GUYS. I told my husband […]
The book that ate up April.
Welcome to the book that ATE APRIL. I might be exaggerating a little bit, but it felt like it lasted forever. [Goodreads has rudely informed me that it was only nine days, but still. I have a triple cannonball to get through, and this DID NOT HELP] B chose this for our May book club pick, and I was intrigued by the story, having seen trailers for the film adaptation and heard whisperings from my family circle that it was “about abortion!” I come from […]
A play about a hard topic to speak about.
I try to keep track of Pulitzer Prize winners, particularly in fiction and drama, because I like to have my pulse on what is winning awards and what I can teach in future classes. I saw that Lynn Nottage’s Sweat was this year’s drama winner and promptly went to my library. Of course, they don’t have it yet. So I decided the next-best thing would be to read her other Pulitzer Prize winner, Ruined. In short, Ruined is about what happens to women before, during, […]
A wonderful and poignant novel about identity and faith
What I love about books is their ability to pull you in and make you feel empathy and imagination in instances where you don’t seem to have any connection with the situation at hand. And that’s the power in reading diverse books: you start to understand people who may seem “different” from you are actually not that different, and their struggles with faith have some alignment with your own. This was my experience with The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, which, in my opinion, is […]
An interesting, dense, if plot-heavy sci-fi techy novel
I went to my Leaderboard post on CBR to see what my last review was, and it was #57 (as of today, I’ve finished book 66). And I posted it on April 8. That’s like a whole month ago. It’s time to get to work. I think I’ve mentioned before that I work part-time (one of THREE part-time jobs, because being an academic is exhausting, and you can never make enough money for the work that you end up doing) at an Islamic college in […]
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