Category: Paperback
It’s Monday, What are you Reading?
It’s Monday, What are you Reading? It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organise yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment, and er… add to that ever growing TBR…
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt:: A Short Story Collection by Aimee Bender
I have a love/hate relationship with short story collections. Sometimes I just can’t wrap by head around them. But, I remember one of the Rubber City Book Posse members telling me YEARS ago that I might enjoy Bender’s work. This particular book say in my head for years, until I finally made the leap and…
Freedom’s Child by Jax Miller
Freedom’s Child by Jax Miller Freedom Oliver works the bar in Oregon. She finally convinced the whippersnappers to leave her alone for the most part. She’s an alcoholic, and keeps to herself (except for a core group of friends, no one really ‘knows’ Freedom). Until the day when she finds out her daughter was killed.…
Back to the 80s: A Review of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Back to the 80s: A Review of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline I love the 80s. I grew up during them, and so they have a special place in my heart. And, when I can read something that holds the same reverence to my beloved decade, I am super excited. That’s why I was…
Vinegar Girl – A Modern take on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew
Anne Tyler’s Modern Take on an Old Classic I’ve been a fan of Shakespeare since I was very young. Reciting lines, answering trivia and even acting out bit parts (before landing a part as Titania, but that’s another story)–so I’m fairly familiar with the story of Taming of the Shrew. If being a fan of the…
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot : A Review of Kim Barker’s War Memoir
Funny story, I was a Journalism major, and seriously considered being a foreign correspondent, even after September 11 changed the face of global reporting during my third year at University. And, shortly after that, a professor was hideous to me and I swore off university-based media. Kim Barker originally wrote Whiskey Tango Foxtrot as The Taliban Shuffle about her…