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Book Review: The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 13, 2019 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

In The Paragon Hotel, Lyndsay Faye brings us a character nicknamed Nobody. She’s actually Alice James, but is skilled at disappearing into the corner of a room or a street. She uses some disguise, but mostly changes voices and attitudes to blend in. It’s a skill she...

Book Review: There There by Tommy Orange

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 8, 2019 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

There There by Tommy Orange wasn’t the book I’d hoped it would be. Where Heart Berries was a deep dive in one woman’s psyche, There There is a shallow dip into the lives of many, many characters. That they both center on the varied experiences of Native Americans in...

Book Review: The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 9, 2019 | RESIST: Social Justice

Richard Rothstein makes complex government-sanctioned segregation eminently clear in The Color of Law. Although he’s a researcher and academic, his writing is easy to read. It’s the content—the actions he describes—that made me angry enough to throw things. But I’m...