For The Book Obsessed
Should you read that book you’ve had your eye on? Will it totally rock or sink like a stone? Check out these book reviews from book lovers like you to help you find your next great read!
[ad_1] “You can be a mother and a poet.” So writes Kate Baer in “Moon Song,” part of her first poetry collection, What Kind of Woman. She effortlessly spans parenting, friendship, love, and how women perceive and are perceived, with stunning imagery. Poems like “Female Candidate” hit home, upending the current moment to examine it. … Read more
[ad_1] Rating: ★★★★★ Title: Fae Child Author: Jane-Holly Meissner Book Review Fae Child is a story about an eight year old little girl who finds herself in the land of the fairies which is ruled by two powerful queens. Each queen rules over her own realm, the lands of Summer and Winter. If Abby has … Read more
[ad_1] Danielle Evans’s second story collection, The Office Of Historical Corrections, draws on the current zeitgeist with provocative narratives examining race, female friendship, and privilege. The collection concludes with a novella by the same name dealing with both our present obsession with truth and the historical legacy of racism. Women carry this collection, and the … Read more
[ad_1] Rating: ★★★★★ Title: Skyward Author: Brandon Sanderson Non-Spoiler Book Review WOW. just… WOW. This wasn’t a book. This was an experience. Skyward is a heart-pounding adventure that will make you feel like a star fighter. I was completely swept up in this incredible world and colorful characters. I laughed out loud. I worried. I smirked. I … Read more
[ad_1] Michael Riedel writes his sequel to Razzle Dazzle kicking off where he ended with his well-received history of Broadway. Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway carries on in a similar way as this first book. Both books mention, and seem to be influenced by, William Goldman’s The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway (1969). … Read more
[ad_1] Rating: ★★★★★ Title: Midnight Sun Author: Stephenie Meyer Book Review Midnight Sun is a fantastic addition to the Twilight Universe that I didn’t know the world needed. I read the entire Twilight series for the first time in 2019, so I’m hardly the typical fan, but I remember thinking at the end of Breaking … Read more
[ad_1] Soylent, the nutrient-packed, colorless meal replacement drink, was introduced to the American public in 2014 after a wildly successful crowdfunding campaign proved people just don’t want to waste precious time and energy eating anymore. When Rob Rhinehart, Soylent’s inventor, was working on a technology startup in San Francisco, he started to see buying, cooking … Read more
[ad_1] Whenever I go for a run and cue up a playlist (lately a compendium of tracks I’ve called “What the Fuck Is Happening” that includes pandemic-appropriate songs like “You Make Me Sick” by Satan’s Rats and “So Sick” by Ne-Yo), I experience something that I like to call “dancing in my head.” I’m running, … Read more
[ad_1] Melissa Lucashenko’s novel Too Much Lip tells the story of stolen land and stolen children. Though these crimes are assigned to the past, their violent legacies – poverty, addiction, abuse, discrimination – still plague the Bundjalung Nation, an Aboriginal community whose ancestral homelands lie along the northern coast of New South Wales, Australia. But … Read more
[ad_1] Susie Yang’s debut White Ivy is focused around issues of identity, belonging, and the inherent anxieties that accompany those who simultaneously seek to conform and hide. Where does an “average and nondescript” Chinese American girl belong in white America? In what form does racial prejudice make itself visible in a fractured modern world? Yang … Read more