100% SPOILER CONTENT Genre: Horror Stars: 4
Tag: Book Review
Book Spotlight: Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who Play It by David M. Ewalt
Genre: non-fiction, memoir, pop-culture Stars: 2
Book Spotlight: The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss
Genre: Fiction Stars: 2
Book Spotlight: Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
Genre: Sci-Fi, Fiction Stars: 4
Book Spotlight: Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc Tran
Genre: Autobiography, non-fiction, memoir Stars: 5
BookSpotlight: Galatea by Madeline Miller
Genre: Fiction Stars: 5 WARNING: This novella contains (non-explicit) domestic violence
Book Spotlight: Circe by Madeline Miller
Genre: Fiction Stars: 5 WARNING: This novel contains (non-explicit) sexual violence
Strange World, 2020.
It’s almost baffling how removed I am at this time – I’ve taken quarantine to heart. Quarantine has almost been too easy for me. I’m detaching, for better or for worse, and I’m allowing it to happen. “Stay in, keep the crazy out."
Book Spotlight: The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee
Genre: YA Fiction Rating: 5 star* (please see disclaimer)
Book Spotlight: The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley
Genre: Fiction Rating: 3 stars
How I Rate Book Spotlights
Everyone's a critic. But not everyone follows a set of rules to forming opinions. These are mine at least where books are concerned.
August 2019 Reads
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton This novel blends sci-fi time travel and astral projection with a murder mystery dinner party. I listened via audible, and it's well paced in order to keep a listener engaged without being too detail-oriented to lose whole plot points on my morning commute. More than… Continue reading August 2019 Reads