*also films, art, conversations, etc.
When my husband entered the room and saw me quietly sobbing, I held up my (library copy) of Wild Dark Shore as the reason. Some authors are famous for “tearjerker” novels, and those rarely get me – I don’t like to feel manipulated into crying when reading a book. We watched some palate cleanser television,…
The Poppy War (Book 1 of a trilogy) was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award in the Fantasy category, but I think it’s more accurately (alternate) historical fiction. I understand that the magical elements are why it falls under “fantasy,” but the a lot of the story (including the names of some people and places)…
Michelle Zauner lost her mother to cancer (the blurb says it was pancreatic, but in the book she clarifies that this ended up being an incorrect diagnosis), and this memoir came out of her experience, not only of seeing her mother through to the other side, but her conflicted feelings about her culture (she’s mixed…
I made an exception to my practice of reading other people’s book reviews only after I have written my own, and noticed that some readers are angry that, to them, this is more of a historical romance than it is a horror novel. It’s true that there is a romance, but there is also horror…
No More Tears is a well-researched expose of Johnson & Johnson, a company so ubiquitous that most of us are probably familiar with their tagline – “a family company” – and we probably have no idea how many of their products we have in our homes because they own many companies. The bottom line –…