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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...

Jean Hanff Korelitz — The Plot: a Bookish Thriller (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 26, 2021 | RELAX: Mystery-Thriller

When the new book from Jean Hanff Korelitz, called The Plot, arrived on my doorstep, I dove right in. Even though it isn’t due to publish until May 2021, I just couldn’t wait. I have a thing for books about authors and the craft of writing. Especially when, like this...

Michiko Kakutani — The Death of Truth: Small Book about Big Ideas (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 23, 2021 | RESIST: Politics

The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump from Michiko Kakutani sat on my shelf for years, since being published to great acclaim in 2018. Other books related to the political situation during the Trump Administration felt more relevant. After reading...

Ayşe Kulin — Last Train to Istanbul: Dramatic WWII Story (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 22, 2021 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Well-loved Turkish author Ayşe Kulin illustrates another angle on the early years of World War II in her 2002 book Last Train to Istanbul. (Translated to English in 2013.) The story is set partly in Turkey and partly in the Nazi-occupied French cities of Paris and...

Mudlark by Lara Maiklem — Visit London Throughout the Ages (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 19, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Lara Maiklem introduced me to a whole new world in Mudlark: In Search of London’s Past Along the River Thames. Not that I haven’t been to London. I have. She takes readers specifically to the foreshore of Britain’s iconic Thames, with all of its quirks and...

The Language of Threads from Gail Tsukiyama—Women of the Silk Book #2 (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 18, 2021 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

The Language of Threads is a continuation of Gail Tsukiyama’s excellent book Women of the Silk. I’m glad to have read both in sequence, which immersed me in the main character’s entire life.  In the first book, Pei is taken from her small China village, sold to work...

M.L. Stedman — The Light Between Oceans: An Unthinkable Dilemma (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 12, 2021 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

M.L. Stedman creates historical fiction based around a unthinkable choice in The Light Between Oceans. Set in the years between the World Wars and along the coast of South West Australia, it’s a unique period piece. And the choice its main characters make reverberates...

Gail Tsukiyama — Women of the Silk delivers Historical Fiction set in China (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 11, 2021 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

In Women of the Silk, a 1991 book from Gail Tsukiyama, times are hard. It’s China in the late 1920s and especially in the small villages nature and politics affect everyone. Our main character is a young girl named Pei. As the story opens, she’s about six, and her...

Shuggie Bain — a Heartbreaking Debut from Douglas Stuart (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 9, 2021 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Shuggie Bain, the debut novel from author Douglas Stuart is a gut punch on nearly every page. It’s the story of a kid growing up in Glasgow, Scotland during the 1980s. He’s the youngest of three kids born to an alcoholic mother. His older siblings have a different...

Danielle Girard — Exhume: Dr. Schwartzman #1 (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 6, 2021 | RELAX: Mystery-Thriller

Danielle Girard introduces readers to Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman, Medical Examiner in a new series. This first book is called Exhume and it includes a variety of themes. First, of course is the world of morgues and autopsies. Second, is the way her role of gathering...

Hope Jahren — The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 4, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Hope Jahren developed the crux of The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go from Here as an introductory class for college students. And fundamentally, it reads this way. There’s a lot of science, some history, a bit of humor, and a smattering of...

Erin French — Finding Freedom: A Cook’s Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 31, 2021 | RELAX: Memoir

Erin French details how she reached success in her upcoming memoir Finding Freedom: A Cook’s Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch. (Available early April 2021.) It’s not a straight A to Z path, but one that goes backwards, forwards, and even sideways. Of course,...

Doris Kearns Goodwin — The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 29, 2021 | RESIST: Politics

Doris Kearns Goodwin creates a behemoth of early twentieth century history in The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. I confess to knowing very little beyond the basics about Roosevelt. Before reading this book, I...

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...

John O. Brennan, Former CIA Director on His Life: Undaunted (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 20, 2021 | RESIST: Politics

John O. Brennan does everything you’d expect in his 2019 memoir Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies, at Home and Abroad. He lived a CIA life. But this isn’t all clandestine stuff, like watching a season of Homeland. While there are some parallels, Brennan...

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...
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