Category Archives: Book Reviews

Secret Societies

Posted on May 13, 2021 by Miranda Richmond

Secret societies- I am sure we have all heard rumors about secret organizations doing secret things behind closed doors that they are sworn to secrecy about. While I cannot confirm the existence of any real secret societies, I do enjoy … Continue reading →

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Book Review – A Grand, But Concise, History Of Physics

Posted on April 13, 2021 by Julie

Recently I have read the brand-new Michio Kaku book, The God Equation. For those unfamiliar with Kaku, he tends to write books about the cutting edge of technology and science, his specialty being physics. This time, he goes back to … Continue reading →

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Feminist Reads

Posted on March 24, 2021 by Miranda Richmond

Female Literary Role Models As this month comes to a close I have been thinking about the women I have read about that have had an impact on me. When I started working on this post the list was way … Continue reading →

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The Low Desert by Tod Goldberg

Posted on February 6, 2021 by Sarah Willis

The characters in The Low Desert are gangsters, murders, criminals, and those caught up in the underbelly of the brutal world of crime and broken lives. The stories maybe cringe-worthy, frightening, and sad, but Tod Goldberg finds the heart and … Continue reading →

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American Daughter By Stephanie Thorton Plymale

Posted on January 10, 2021 by Sarah Willis

American Daughter by Stephanie Thornton Plymale is one of the most astonishing memoirs I’ve ever read. Our assumptions at the beginning of this story are upended by the discoveries Stephanie makes about her mother just before her mother dies, just … Continue reading →

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A Literary Desegregationist Selects 11 Works Published by Black Women Writers in 2020

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Miesha

To witness is to humanize. Reading is an act of both witnessing and humanization. The passive activity of reading – sitting silent in a room and devoting one’s full attention to a printed page – is a powerful action. A … Continue reading →

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Afrofuturism: The Diaspora Strikes Back

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Miesha

In an irony, new walls against immigration imperil the people who were the slave triangle’s abductees and source of capital. Black people are confined in places capital abandoned. Continue reading →

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Children With a Different Point of View

Posted on August 18, 2020 by Julie

I have read three excellent Teen/Middle Grade novels this summer, that all feature children with an unusual way of looking at the world. Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart, out now. Lily and Dunkin is a charming upper Middle Grade … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “Humans” by Brandon Stanton

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Julie

Many of you are probably familiar with the website Humans of New York, which was started by Brandon Stanton. For those of you who are not, the basic concept is that he approaches strangers in the street to take their … Continue reading →

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Last Tang Standing, by Lauren Ho, reviewed by Susan Petrone

Posted on June 29, 2020 by Sarah Willis

Andrea Tang is 33 (almost), working to make partner at one of the top law firms in Singapore, and surrounded by good friends. She has it all except someone to share it with. Then she meets Eric, an older, sexy … Continue reading →

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