I’m on a Revolutionary War kick—probably because I listened to Alexander Hamilton: Revolutionary and I’m fast on my way to memorizing the musical “Alexander Hamilton.” So I picked up 1776, hoping to round out my understanding of the war a little bit more. (I did learn all this in high school, but ...
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Review of Jackaby
I picked up this book because of the cover… I mean, come on. Isn’t that gorgeous?! It’s got the silhouette thing going, with an image inside the silhouette, and the font… wow. I always download the e-book free samples of books first, and if that hooks me, then I’ll buy the audio version. I went for ...
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Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary
I picked up this book at the same time as I started listening to “Hamilton: An American Musical”, alternating between them so that I’d listen to the musical rendition of the history I’d just heard. And… wow. I wish I was a history teacher, just so I could assign my students to do the same thing. The ...
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Norse Mythology
Mythology in general has always fascinated me—I actually studied it a decent amount for the Piercing the Veil trilogy—but it’s rare to find a volume of myths so entertainingly told. Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology is timely, too, considering its characters have been on the big screen quite a bit ...
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Wonder Woman: Warbringer
Let me preface this with a very unpopular opinion, and just get it out of the way right now: I absolutely *hated* the most recent Wonder Woman film (my review of it is here, if you care). So I didn’t have super high expectations for this book. But I see it advertised on end caps every time I go to ...
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The Body Electric
I almost never read e-books because my attention span is too short (sad as that is to say). If I’m doing something else at the same time, I have far more patience—but if I’m a captive audience, a book has to be really good for me to make it past page 20 or so.
I got The Body Electric on sale, and ...
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Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman has one of the most distinctive narrative voices I’ve ever read. He seamlessly blends the real world, and even current pop culture, with fantasy, and in such a droll way--as if, Well, of course you can move between worlds and dimensions. Of course there's a cave at the end/beginning of ...
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Review of Light Falls: Space, Time, and An Obsession of Einstein
I generally don’t listen to non-fiction audiobooks, because I have a hard time absorbing the information. This book was an exception, mostly because it was on sale in Audible… but also because it was a dramatization of history more than anything else. Narrated by physicist Brian Greene (I’ve read ...
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Julie
My mom read this book to me when I was little—probably in elementary school sometime. (I’d all but forgotten about Catherine Marshall until my husband mentioned a book by Peter Marshall, her husband, that we ought to read together sometime.) It’s always interesting to revisit a story I only knew as ...
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Review of A Court of Thorns and Roses
I had tried Sarah J Maas’s Throne of Glass series a few years ago and couldn’t get into it. But this series is everywhere, and everyone gushes about how great it is, so finally I decided to give it a try. Let me preface the rest of what I have to say with the fact that I stop reading books that ...
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