What a depressing book. From start-to-finish, I couldn’t wait to be done. Every turn of the page seemed to bring on a new horror. From squashed mice and executions gone terribly wrong, to evil-hearted characters and an unsatisfactory ending, there was plenty to be upset about. That said, Stephen King’s The Green Mile was no…
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A Future Worth Living For
I am participating in the Cannonball Read 13, which you can learn more about here. I’ve committed to 26 book reviews — let’s see if I can pull that off. This review is currently featured on the home page. Enjoy! What a delightfully pleasant read. The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig, offers a story filled…
When Breath Becomes Air
As a cancer patient, myself, I approached Paul Kalanithi’s book with a measure of caution. I knew I would enjoy the clinical stuff because that’s always interesting. But I was scared about the inevitable ending. I expected it to strike a particularly raw nerve, and it did.
Wash Your Hands, Don’t Hoard Toilet Paper, and Try to Avoid the Cancer
2020 was weird. Everything was sort of a hazy blur. Time both stood still and moved forward at an alarming speed. Reality — a distant concept — faded into the history of a seemingly ancient 2019. I didn’t know how to feel or whether I actually felt anything. My thoughts and emotions were on this…
New Year, New Me… Yeah, Probably Not
I really love the concept of starting fresh each year — reinventing myself, making meaningful change — it’s powerful. In theory, New Year’s resolutions are great — not only do they force us to look back at what we’ve been doing and re-evaluate, but they also ask us to do better. Eating too much pie?…
Magpie Murders: A Modern Day Agatha Christie Mystery
Set in a small English town, Anthony Horowitz’s Magpie Murders features all the archetypes that whodunit connoisseurs have come to expect from the genre. There’s a nosy neighbor, a vicar, a small-town doctor, plenty of small-minded townsfolk, a wealthy man of power, and a ridiculously intelligent detective. Horowitz also slips in a few less-conventional elements,…
A Minnesota Fall
I have not been very focused on my reading lately because much of my energy has been devoted to other things. In general, I tend to go through reading phases during which I’ll read five books in a row without hardly ever coming up for air. Then, I’ll follow that with a reading…
A-Z Alphabet Book
Hello, Friends! I have been wanting to do this for a while now but didn’t have the platform to do so until I started this blog. During my last year of college at UC Santa Cruz, I found myself alone in a new city and surrounded by students who were ten years younger than me….
Twin Cities Book Festival | Rain Taxi
I have been looking for ways to get involved with the local literary community since I moved to Minnesota, and was thrilled to have the opportunity to volunteer yesterday for the Rain Taxi-sponsored Twin Cities Book Festival. Gathered together, in a spacious building at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, were the city’s finest authors, readers, publishers,…
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