We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’ve always used the goodreads star rating: 5=it was amazing 4=really liked it 3=liked it 2=it was okay 1=did not like Which means that I ruin the scale for all the books I review, because most people seem to …
Category: Book Review
Jun 21
Book Review: The Worst Hard Time
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan This is a very important book for anyone who cares at all about American history and/or American political policy. It chronicles the dust bowl from when it was nothing but Comanche-owned grassland until the end of …
Jun 14
Book Review: Hero to Zero
Hero To Zero by Zach Fortier I got this off bookbub, figuring that I was willing to take a chance on a free book. It’s exactly as promised: stories of cops who went from excelling in their career to being persona-non-grata, usually because of hubris. Fortier has a direct style of writing. For the most …
Jun 05
Book Review: The Alchemist
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho I started this book not having any preconceived notions of what it was or what it was about except that the cover said it was an international bestseller. I can see why it was an international bestseller. While the story is a simple story (which I had heard before, slightly …
May 29
Book Review: Reading Classes
Reading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America by Barbara Jensen I bought this book after attending a panel and workshop presented by the author at a con, and I was so hungry to learn more that I bought her book. Class in America is a subject that we don’t like to talk about. In …