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Douglas Abrams & Jane Goodall — The Book of Hope (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 7, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Douglas Abrams teams up with Jane Goodall to co-create The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times. It’s a record of their conversations about hope, and focuses primarily on Goodall’s four reasons to be hopeful. Abrams is a skilled interviewer and captures the...

Jarrett Adams — Redeeming Justice (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 3, 2021 | RESIST: Social Justice

Jarrett Adams tells his alternately inspiring and maddening story in Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System. At 17, he attended a college party with two of his buddies. Before the night was out, they had...

Leigh Cowart — Hurts So Good (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 28, 2021 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Leigh Cowart explores why people consent to experience pain in their upcoming book, Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose. They take the science of pain and correlate it with a variety of intentional experiences from ballet class to eating wildly...

Kiran Millwood Hargrave — The Mercies (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 21, 2021 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Kiran Millwood Hargrave crafts a story of community and strength in her historical fiction novel, The Mercies. Set in a remote Norwegian coastal village called Vardø in 1617, the story centers on two women. Maren Bergensdatter is barely out of her teens when a...

Nancy Marie Brown — The Real Valkyrie (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 5, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Nancy Marie Brown combines history and imagination in her upcoming book, The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women. If you follow me, you know that I love books about Vikings and Norse people. And this is the best I’ve ever read. It covers a wide...

Mohsin Hamid — Exit West (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 31, 2021 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

Mohsin Hamid creates a unique refugee story in Exit West. It’s partly delicate but cannot entirely be classified that way since it’s rooted in aggressive, war-torn circumstances. Still, the main characters, Nadia and Saeed navigate life despite the obstacles. And...

Renée Nicholson — Fierce and Delicate (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 19, 2021 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Renée Nicholson writes about two different parts of her life in Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness. Initially, she’s the young dancer making sense of competition, instructor corrections, and visions of the future. As the essays progress, Nicholson...

Scott Hawkins — The Library at Mount Char (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 15, 2021 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

The Library at Mount Char, a spectacular debut novel from Scott Hawkins, combines epic and urban fantasy. It’s confusing for a long while, but thankfully the focus ultimately tightens. Better still, Hawkins creates memorable characters whose true nature hovers just...

Elizabeth Packard is The Woman They Could Not Silence
in Kate Moore’s New Book (Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 16, 2021 | RESIST: Feminism

Elizabeth Packard is the subject of Kate Moore’s new book, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear. But I’ll venture to guess you’ve never heard of Mrs. Packard. Although her story is...

The Maidens — Literary Mystery from Alex Michaelides

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

The Maidens from Alex Michaelides is an erudite, binge-worthy mystery. Set in Cambridge, England among ivy-covered buildings many centuries old, it draws from Greek tragedy and mythology. But the murders at the story’s heart are definitely in the here and now. It’s...

Dr. Greta Helsing Books #2 and #3 from Vivian Shaw: Quirky Contemporary Fantasy (Book Reviews)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 28, 2021 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

In her Dr. Greta Helsing series, author Vivian Shaw mixes weird science, likable characters, and tongue-in-cheek humor in a contemporary fantasy brew. Not as gritty as some urban fantasy, the books are built around Helsing’s career as a medical doctor to supernatural...

Dr. Jen Gunther, MD — The Menopause Manifesto (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 18, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else, RESIST: Feminism

Dr. Jen Gunther, MD is my new chief explainer of women’s health. Her upcoming book, The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism is brilliant. It’s an utterly necessary addition to every 35+ woman’s bookshelf. Run, don’t walk, to your nearest...

Angela Howard: Sin Child — A Harrowing Memoir (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 7, 2021 | RELAX: Memoir

Angela Howard is a brave woman. Her memoir, Sin Child, shows that she achieved this character trait because she survived. Oh my, what she survived. And in the process, she clearly developed some serious internal strength. Nobody could beat it out of her, though God...

Caroline Criado Perez: Invisible Women — Exposing Patriarchy (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 6, 2021 | RESIST: Feminism

Caroline Criado Perez covers extensive ground in Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. Because the world offers her illustrations galore of how we exclude women from data. Then she turns around and explains what this means in everyday women’s lives....

Liese O’Halloran Schwarz: What Could Be Saved—A Genre Spanning Story (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 2, 2021 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Liese O’Halloran Schwarz crafts a family drama / mystery in What Could Be Saved. It’s set in current day Washington, D.C. as well as early 1970s Bangkok, Thailand. The Preston family—parents Genevieve and Robert and siblings Bea, Laura, and Phillip—go to Bangkok for...

Sarah M. Broom: The Yellow House (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Apr 23, 2021 | RELAX: Memoir

Sarah M. Broom creates a tour de force memoir in The Yellow House. And truthfully, it’s so much more. It’s about her family, her childhood, and the house she grew up in. But it’s also about her home city, New Orleans, including the politics, the racial divide, and the...
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