3 Stars. I didn’t know much about this event other than the bare minimum prior to reading this book: a plane crashed in South America in the ’70s; the passengers survived by cannibalism; and the movie Alive, which I haven’t seen, is based on it. So I expected to get more of a straightforward recounting of the facts. What I got […]
Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl prompts us to share “The Top Ten Characters I Would Name a Pet After” this week. This is a fun topic but could be difficult so we’ll see how I do. Dogs Cats Others That’s my list! Have you read any of these? Do you agree with the names […]
For this week’s Nonfiction November prompt, Rennie at What’s Nonfiction invites us to Be the Expert, Ask the Expert, or Become the Expert. Three ways to join in this week! You can either share 3 or more books on a single topic that you have read and can recommend (be the expert), you can put […]
Welcome to my weekly update for November 15, 2020! Posted: Book Review: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (2018 edition) by James W. Loewen–4 Stars Book Review: The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained by Colin Dickey–4 Stars Book Review: Hole in the Sky by […]
2 Stars. I just couldn’t click with this book. Kittredge does write beautifully and he writes of a way of life that seems to be disappearing. He writes fondly of the hands who worked the ranch, some of them for years and years for little more than room and board. He describes the difficult land in the salt flats of eastern […]
4 Stars. I’m not quite sure what I expected when I downloaded this book from the library but it’s not exactly what I got. Not that I’m complaining; this book is absorbing. My review keeps turning into a book report because I want to discuss so many of the ideas I just read! I knew this was nonfiction about the worlds of […]
Hmmm…. Where to start? I mostly found this book fascinating and the inaccurate history we are taught infuriating but I also had problems with the tone. I’ll start with the positives…. Loewen’s main complaint is that our American history textbooks invariably teach from the point of view of White males of European descent. The […]
Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share our top ten book titles that would make great song titles this week. This is such a fun topic! Country Don’t Make Me Choose Between You and My Shoes by Dixie Cash–Every title in the Domestic Equalizer series by the sister writing duo known as […]
This week for Nonfiction November, Julie at Julz Reads prompts us to create nonfiction and fiction book pairings: This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. It can be a “If you loved this book, read this!” or just two titles that you think would go well together. Maybe it’s a historical […]
Welcome to my weekly update for November 8, 2020! My husband started his new work assignment last Monday so I feel safe to say that we left Portland, Oregon and we’re now in Oceanside, California, just north of San Diego! We enjoyed our time in Portland but we’re chasing good weather in our RV. We […]
Hosted by Books Are My Favourite and Best on the first Saturday of every month, the 6 Degrees of Separation meme asks us to start with one title and create a chain of bookish connections to see where it takes us. This month, we’re starting with our last link from a previous chain. I chose Dissolution, from […]