Category: reading

Now is the time to try to finish all the goals that I did not quite get to during the year, mainly my Fully Booked Reading Challenge. After a month of quite a few books read, I don’t know how many of these I’ll get to but we shall see. Fully Booked Reading Challenge Buzzwordathon…

Tahereh Mafi really knows how to write yearning. I felt so captivated by the dynamics of the primary relationship that I did not even mind the relative little movement in the plot. Mafi also really knows how to drag things out. I hope that book five ends the series but with Mafi, one never knows.…

If you need another reason to hate capitalism, read this book. Greenwell wove together several examples of how private equity companies devoured iconic American (and beyond) companies and made life worse for everyone from workers and consumers except for the bare few at the top of the company. So many people need to read this…

As a historian by training, I can handle this kind of horror. Due brilliantly shines a light on these, unfortunately all too real aspects of historical horror, all the ugly skeletons in the closet – in this case, the closet of the United States – the skeletons that have started to come out of the…

I found this book an absolutely adorable delight. Podesta weaves in Christmas magic a la “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Clause” to tell this story of recovering through grief and Christmas magic. The book is already on my classroom shelves. Kagawa did an excellent job bringing this story to a believable conclusion. I really…

Although I did not read the final two books in this series back to back, I nearly did so I will write a combined review, especially given the fact that these are the fifth and sixth books in a series. I have little to say in these views here that I have not already said…

While it may look like I have a more reasonable TBR, the Goodreads Choice Awards come up this month and along with that, my now annual challenge to read through at least two categories, maybe three. On top of that, I have decided to make my own page count reading challenge a la National Novel…

This book has an absolutely fantastic audio production. I highly recommend the audio read over the physical read. Having previously read Magoon’s middle grade works, I expected more of the same. This is not a middle grade read. Although some might categorize this as YA, I would not. I think this is an adult work…