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Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 25, 2022 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

Mad Honey is a compulsively readable novel by two of my favorite authors, Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan. It’s about two single moms in small-town Adams, New Hampshire, and their high school-age kids. Olivia is a beekeeper and entrepreneur. Her son Asher is...

Babel by R. F. Kuang (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 23, 2022 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, RELAX: Historical Fiction

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution, is precisely what I expect from writer and historian R. F. Kuang. It’s complex and highly literate. Plus, the struggle between colonizers and those they oppress is at its...

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 27, 2022 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Dandelion Wine is a masterwork in the art of connected stories or vignettes. In the hands of Ray Bradbury, small-town America in the summer of 1928 comes alive. Kids run free and adults sip glasses of dandelion wine on their porches. But there’s also an unsettling...

Jamie Raskin — Unthinkable (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 24, 2022 | RELAX: Memoir, RESIST: Politics

Congressman Jamie Raskin bares his soul in Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy. This combination of memoir and political history covers topics related to the health of this country. One is the crisis of mental illness in this country,...

Malcolm Nance — They Want to Kill Americans (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 11, 2022 | RESIST: Politics

Malcolm Nance presents a compelling case in his new book, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency. And it couldn’t be more timely, with the January 6th hearings currently ongoing. Nance is a former US Navy...

Adam Grant — Think Again (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 30, 2022 | LEARN: Everything Else

Adam Grant engaged my intellect and curiosity in his 2021 book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know. Plus, I immediately told friends and acquaintances about it. In fact, I didn’t wait until I finished the book. It’s timely and relevant to people’s...

Libby Copeland — The Lost Family (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 19, 2022 | LEARN: Everything Else

Libby Copeland considers all the ways consumer DNA testing has changed our lives in The Lost Family: How DNA Testing is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are. She interviews scientists, career genealogists, ethicists, and lots of regular...

The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 12, 2022 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Fiona Murphy focuses her lyrical memoir, The Shape of Sound, on her experience with hearing and deafness. We follow her memories of childhood up until the present. So, we learn about her ongoing denial of being deaf in one ear. She analyzes how and why she hid her...

Scorpica (The Five Queendoms, #1) by G.R. Macallister (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 21, 2022 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Scorpica is everything I want in epic fantasy—world-building that still makes characters the focus of the story. G.R. Macallister creates entrancing characters in places I’ll never forget. She’s billed this as book one of a new series—The Five Queendoms—and I’m...

Emily St. John Mandel — Station Eleven (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 25, 2022 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Emily St. John Mandel wrote Station Eleven in the early 2010s and published it in 2014. So this is technically a backlist choice. However, with the pandemic-related storyline and the recent HBO adaptation, Station Eleven is more relevant than ever. I’ll review both...

Garrett Graff — The Only Plane in the Sky (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 1, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Garrett M. Graff created a heart-wrenching book with The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11. Since the author intended this to be an oral history, I listened to the audiobook which has a large cast of narrators. About five minutes in, during one of the...

Sasha Geffen — Glitter Up the Dark (Book Review)

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

Sasha Geffen writes a captivating musical and social history in Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary. Not only do they* capture the magic of music through the decades, they also explain how a plethora of performers broke through the limitations of...

S. A. Cosby — Blacktop Wasteland (Book Review)

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

S.A. Cosby is a master of suspense and thrills in his 2020 novel, Blacktop Wasteland. He combines intensity, rapid pacing, and a command of the sentence that boggles my mind. This is a heist thriller, and its action sequences sizzle like hot metal on pavement at 120...

Sarah McBride — Tomorrow Will Be Different (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 22, 2021 | RELAX: Memoir

Sarah McBride covers a wide variety of topics in Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality. But given the complexity of gender identity and McBride’s own path, it’s not surprising. This was also a perfect pick for Pride Month. It fits...

Anne Fadiman — The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 11, 2021 | LEARN: Chronic Illness, RESIST: Social Justice

Author Anne Fadiman combines multiple narratives in her fabulous ethnography The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. Most importantly, it’s both an immigration and a medical story of one Hmong...

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai — The Mountains Sing (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 20, 2021 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai is a celebrated Vietnamese poet. With the release of her 2020 book, The Mountains Sing she’s also a novelist. The book is an intimate view of the Tran family and their struggles across decades and generations. Nguyễn uses two story lines to shape...
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