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Mateo Askaripour: New Author Offers Insightful Novel, Black Buck (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 14, 2021 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour is many things—racial justice commentary, social satire about the sales industry, debut novel, and maybe even a morality play. But at its heart, it’s a good story with a compelling main character who indeed sold his ideas effectively to...

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...

The Arctic Fury–Part Courtroom, Part Adventure—by Greer Macallister (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 6, 2020 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

The Arctic Fury, the latest from Greer Macallister, is a hybrid of adventure and courtroom drama. The story centers around Virginia Reeve, who leads a group of women north into Canada and towards the Northwest Territories in 1853. If you look on a map today, you see...

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...

Lindy West—Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Oct 13, 2020 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

Lindy West reviews classic movies from the last several decades in Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema. These are her favorites, meaning she likes to pick them apart and point out all the plot holes, weird characters, and clunky...

Our Malady by Timothy Snyder—Healthcare, Freedom & Politics (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 1, 2020 | LEARN: Chronic Illness, RESIST: Politics

Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary by Timothy Snyder is just under 200 pages. While it’s not long, it covers topics we all face daily whether we know it or not—our health and freedom. A Yale professor, historian, and writer, Snyder was not well at...

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women by Kate Manne (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 8, 2020 | RESIST: Feminism

The good news is you only have to wait until Tuesday 8/11 to read Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women from author Kate Manne. There is absolutely no better time to get the run down on male privilege, since it’s loud and proud all over social media and the news....

From R.L. Maizes: A Feel-Good Novel called Other People’s Pets (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 2, 2020 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

Only R.L. Maizes would have thought to combine burglary with animal empaths. And she does just that in her sparkling, feel-good novel, Other People’s Pets. (Publishing on 14 July 2020.) I loved her 2019 short story collection, so I’m not surprised I feel the same way...

Mychal Denzel Smith on why Stakes is High: Life After the American Dream (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 29, 2020 | RESIST: Social Justice

Mychal Denzel Smith crafted a group of stunning essays in his new book, Stakes is High: Life After the American Dream. These essays are so spot on and relevant to current events as to be fully prescient. When in fact, they’re discussing complex conditions that have...

Book Review: The Book of Soul by Mark Nepo

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 30, 2020 | LEARN: Everything Else

Mark Nepo is the only author with a spiritual bent that I consistently read. And his May 2020 book, The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters is no exception. It’s a peaceful, warm, and caring respite from a world on fire. Nepo talks about topics such as how...

Book Review: Hiding in Plain Sight by Sarah Kendzior

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 7, 2020 | RESIST: Politics

Sarah Kendzior has done it again with Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America. This is 320 pages of hard truths, and may or may not feel like healthy quarantine reading. Especially considering how much scarier everything has...

Book Review: The Holdout by Graham Moore

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 27, 2020 | RELAX: Mystery-Thriller

Graham Moore does courtroom dramas and legal thrillers proud in The Holdout. His characters are believable, the plot is layered and complex, and the conclusion satisfying. I don’t ask for much more in a dramatic thriller. Maya Seale was a young, somewhat aimless...

Book Review: Secrets of the Chocolate House (Found Things #2) by Paula Brackston

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 22, 2020 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

After I read the first book in Paula Brackston’s recent series, Found Things, I was super excited to read the next book. Called Secrets of the Chocolate House, I finished it in the midst of our current global pandemic crisis. Naturally, I wished for escapist reading....

Book Review: Takes One to Know One by Susan Isaacs

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 13, 2020 | RELAX: Mystery-Thriller

​ Back in the day, Susan Isaacs was an auto-buy author for me. But that was literally decades ago. When I happened to read an excerpt of her 2019 book, Takes One to Know One, I thought it was time to give her writing another try. And this was an enjoyable, if not...

Book Review: The Edge of Nowhere by C.H. Armstrong

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 7, 2020 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Author C.H. Armstrong writes a compelling deep dive into Oklahoma’s Dust Bowl years in the early twentieth century. In The Edge of Nowhere, her main character is Victoria Hastings. And, my goodness, she does not lead an easy life. The book is a letter from Victoria to...

Book Review: The Angel and the Assassin by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 11, 2019 | LEARN: Chronic Illness

Donna Jackson Nakazawa is a favorite nonfiction author of mine. Her book, The Autoimmune Epidemic was one of the first books I read after being diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis 10 years ago. And I’ve devoured every one she’s written since. The Angel and the...
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