getting (sort of) caught up on blogging about my reading - in february i read:
the immortalists, by chloe benjamin (four siblings visit a psychic, who tells each of them the date they will die. is the psychic right? what effect does this visit have on their lives? i really enjoyed this book, with four fully-formed characters who live very different lives. thumbs up! i'd recommend it.)
world war z, by max brooks (i listened to this audiobook, with tons of narrators so each new character had a unique voice. that is the best thing about this book. i did not find the story line particularly compelling, nor this post-apocalyptic world particularly interesting. you can continue to pass on this one.)
men explain things to me, by rebecca solnit (my local independent bookstore recommended this to me when i bought a chimamanda adichie [spelled that correct on the first try - please be proud] book, and i really enjoyed it. it's a book of essays on feminism from the woman who coined the term "mansplaining." now that i've read this i see solnit's name around a fair amount - she seems like someone we should all read at some point, given her prominence in the feminist essay-writing field!)
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Saturday, March 3, 2018
january: 1, 2 & 3
a little behind in posting, but in january i read:
moxie, by jennifer mathieu (great young adult feminist fiction by a local author! buy this for all the middle school girls in your life. big thumbs up.)
american heiress, by jeffrey toobin (i listened to this audiobook, about the patty hearst kidnapping. before i read the book i knew that patty hearst was somehow related to william randolph hearst, she was kidnapped by the symbionese liberation army, and then maybe she got stockholm syndrome because she robbed a bank with her kidnappers. now i know a TON more, and i found the story fascinating. right down to the fact that she hated being called patty (she preferred patricia) - the only person who called her patty was her father, but because he was the one who did the news conferences while she was kidnapped, that's what the public knows her as. great audiobook!)
sing, unburied, sing, by jesmyn ward (i read this for a book club, and we picked it because the book (and the author) was getting SO much press that we literate ladies needed to know what the fuss was all about. i liked this book a lot - lyrical, at times tough to read, and it painted a beautiful picture of the world in which it was set. but i didn't lose my mind for it like the media attention had led me to believe i would. so by all means, read it, if only so we can discuss our impressions of it.)
moxie, by jennifer mathieu (great young adult feminist fiction by a local author! buy this for all the middle school girls in your life. big thumbs up.)
american heiress, by jeffrey toobin (i listened to this audiobook, about the patty hearst kidnapping. before i read the book i knew that patty hearst was somehow related to william randolph hearst, she was kidnapped by the symbionese liberation army, and then maybe she got stockholm syndrome because she robbed a bank with her kidnappers. now i know a TON more, and i found the story fascinating. right down to the fact that she hated being called patty (she preferred patricia) - the only person who called her patty was her father, but because he was the one who did the news conferences while she was kidnapped, that's what the public knows her as. great audiobook!)
sing, unburied, sing, by jesmyn ward (i read this for a book club, and we picked it because the book (and the author) was getting SO much press that we literate ladies needed to know what the fuss was all about. i liked this book a lot - lyrical, at times tough to read, and it painted a beautiful picture of the world in which it was set. but i didn't lose my mind for it like the media attention had led me to believe i would. so by all means, read it, if only so we can discuss our impressions of it.)
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