The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
12 year old Petra Pena wants to be a storyteller like her grandmother, but her scientist parents are pushing her in their direction instead. When Halley's Comet is knocked into a collision course with Earth, humanity doesn't have long to scramble and get as many people off the planet as they can. … [Read more]
A Restless Truth by Freya Marske
CBR15PASSPORT (Stamp #4: Books from different countries. Do international waters count? If not, written by an Australian.) This is the second book of the Last Binding Series. If you haven’t read it yet, by all means read the first in the series that I reviewed here: A Marvellous Light. It’s a … [Read more]
Women Talking by Miriam Toew
CBR15PASSPORT (Stamp #3: Books from different countries. Set in Bolivia about a Mennonite community written by a Canadian.) This book is a lot. Whatever triggers you have will be triggered. Toew’s novel is based on a real-life series of sexual assaults that occurred at a Mennonite colony in … [Read more]
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
CBR15PASSPORT (Stamp #2: Books recommended by friends. Friends, grocery store clerks, Cannonballers, everyone who has ever read it….) Everyone on the planet has probably read this book already. Many of you reviewed it. It took me forever to actually get to it myself. And I have reasons. So, this … [Read more]
Out of Africa by Isak Denison
CBR15PASSPORT (Stamp #1: Books from different countries. In between a lot of privileged nonsense, it is a love letter to Africa.)After reading Paula McClain’s Circling The Sun last year, I was not finished with the characters. So, I picked up this book to learn a little more about the real-life … [Read more]
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future by James Shapiro
"Read by almost everyone at school, staged in theaters across the land, and long valued by conservatives as highly as liberals, Shakespeare's plays remain common ground, one of the few places where Americans can meet and air their disparate views." This book begins with a discussion of a … [Read more]
