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Amy Stanley — Travel to 1800s Japan in Stranger in the Shogun’s City (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Apr 8, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Amy Stanley is a professor and social historian who specializes in early modern Japan. In her 2020 book, Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, Stanley explores the story of a rebellious woman in a strict time. Her subject is Tsuneno, the...

The Glass Palace — Historical Fiction from Amitav Ghosh (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 28, 2021 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Amitav Ghosh creates a compelling multi-generational narrative in his historical fiction, The Glass Palace. As the book opens, Rajkumar is an 11-year-old boy from India stranded in Mandalay, Burma (now Myanmar). He finds himself in King Thibaw’s Glass Palace in 1885...

Alka Joshi — The Henna Artist: A Businesswoman in 1950s Jaipur, India (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 17, 2021 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Alka Joshi is a debut novelist who used her mother’s life and her imagination to create The Henna Artist. It’s a very strong story that entranced me from moment one. In a nutshell, our heroine is Lakshmi and the time is 1950s India. Women still aren’t treated like...

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 28, 2021 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk is a stroll down memory lane, created by Kathleen Rooney. If you’re curious about the life of women in various decades of the twentieth century, this is for you. Especially if you love melodic language and poetry. Lillian is 84, or...

Ruther Coker Burks —All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 23, 2021 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Ruth Coker Burks writes about her experiences caring for HIV/AIDS patients in All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South. She wasn’t a nurse or other health care provider. She was just a young woman with a big heart and buckets...

Jacqueline Woodson: Red at the Bone—A Novel of Family and Struggle (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 31, 2020 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

Jacqueline Woodson does it again with Red at the Bone. In my opinion, there’s no other living author that imbues so much emotion and grace into so few pages. This story is all about family and self-realization at any age. It’s a story of Melody, a teen whose parents...

The Garden of Promises and Lies by Paula Brackston (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 31, 2020 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

The Garden of Promises and Lies by Paula Brackston is book three in her Found Things series. It’s a little bit romance, a solid dash of historical fiction, and a lot of time traveling hijinks. Our heroine Xanthe Westlake partners with her mother Flora in an antique...

Stephen Graham Jones: Genre Bending Horror in The Only Good Indians (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 31, 2020 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

From Native American author Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians is horror painted on the unsettled background of reservation life. It also bends the time, space, and being continuums. In other words, you’ll need to suspend all disbelief and just go with it. So...

Rachel Mans McKenny: The Butterfly Effect is a Stellar Debut (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 16, 2020 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

In the debut novel from Rachel Mans McKenny, The Butterfly Effect, Greta Oto is more a spiny caterpillar than beautiful butterfly. Even though she’s an entomology graduate student, specializing in the winged creatures. She’s not socially comfortable in most...

Legal Insights from Ruth Bader Ginsburg in My Own Words (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 26, 2020 | LEARN: Everything Else

Reading My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg is like dipping my toe into the world of judges and legal briefs. It’s a marginally vast compilation of lectures, briefs, interviews, and other writings from the Supreme Court Justice. They begin early in life—with a school...

Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 18, 2020 | RESIST: Politics

Watching real-life strongman moves while reading Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present from Ruth Ben-Ghiat is both surreal and chilling. But given that the book’s publication date was also the U.S. Election Day, comparisons are inevitable. At least to one of the...

Dave Cullen on Parkland: Birth of a Movement (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 15, 2020 | RESIST: Politics

Dave Cullen offers the inspirational journey of the students from Margery Stoneman Douglas High School (MSD) in Parkland: Birth of a Movement. Before you think it’s all “happy happy joy joy,” you should know the stories include dark times as well as light. Of course,...

More Gwen Proctor Thrillers: Wolfhunter River & Bitter Falls (Series books 3 & 4)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 10, 2020 | RELAX: Mystery-Thriller

These two satisfying thrillers follow more of Gwen Proctor and her family, which still comprises her teenage son and daughter and now adds a trusted male friend and love interest. If you remember from my recent reviews, she fights vicious Internet trolls and stalkers...

Rachel Caine Thrillers: Stillhouse Lake & Killman Creek (Series books 1 & 2)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Oct 26, 2020 | RELAX: Mystery-Thriller

Rachel Caine and her main character Gwen Proctor know how to create tight-as-a-drum tension throughout this series based in rural Tennessee. In the first book, Gwen moves to Stillhouse Lake, near the small town of Norton, TN after leaving a long string of other...

Bob Woodward explains Trump administration in Rage (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Oct 3, 2020 | RESIST: Politics

Rage by Bob Woodward is the combination of rage-inducing, all the rage, and full of rage. Woodward’s on every interview show (at least on the channels I watch). He’s getting his message out and selling books, for gosh sakes. Plus of course, time is short before...

Robin DiAngelo—White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 8, 2020 | RESIST: Social Justice

As defined by Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility refers to both a book and a behavior. In her subtitle, “Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” we learn the simplest definition of the behavior. White people see race through a completely different lens,...
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