Courtney recently recommended We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It is an essay that has been adapted from a TEDx Talk by the …
Book Reviews
Book Review| Twisty-Turny books
I’ve read three suspense/thriller novels over the past two weeks, and each is known for having a shocking twist (or multiple twists). Typically, I wouldn’t …
Book Review | Calypso by David Sedaris
Genre: Humor, Essay, Nonfiction With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. Make no mistake: these stories are very, …
Happy Books
Given the state of the world (and all of the disturbing books that I read in a row), I decided it would be a good …
Book Review | Party Monster by James St. James
Genre: True Crime, Memoir Murder Was Never So Much Fun! When Disco Bloodbath was first published, it created a storm of controversy for its startlingly …
Favorite Books (of all time)
I’m going to come right out and say that I relate strongly to young boys in coming of age novels. Especially if they have suffered …
Book Review | Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary I had an elementary school teacher who liked to positively praise a job well done by training us all to stand up …
Book Review | The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Horror The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before, …
Book Review ⎸Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker
Genre: Nonfiction, True Crime A literary account of the lives and presumed serial killings of five “Craigslist” prostitutes, whose bodies were found on the same …
Book Review ⎸Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infinite Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace
Genre: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Music A searing account of her search for identity and true self, TRANNY reveals the struggles and victories that Laura Jane Grace, …