The Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Tempest - One of the last if not the last of the written plays, this one has always been among my favorites. It's such a slight play in terms of plot, with really only a handful of scenes, a pretty straightforward plot in a lot of ways, and a small cast of characters. It's also one of the plays … [Read more]
An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley
Dangerous Corner by J. B. Priestley
I've Been Here Before by J. B. Priestley
Time and the Conways by J. B. Priestley
An Inspector Calls - 5/5 This is nice little disturbing play about class consciousness. A well-off family is about to sit down to dinner one evening when a knock on their door reveals a a police inspector asking to interview the family. When they ask him what it's about he's a little coy, for … [Read more]
Welcome to Hell World: Dispatches from the American Dystopia by Luke O’Neil
CBR Bingo: Series I also didn’t want to write a story from the neutered and dispassionate center that most mainstream publications require. I didn’t want to hear from a person suffering and then give space to the person causing that suffering to explain themselves. Something I wrote in one of the … [Read more]
Finance for the People: Getting a Grip on Your Finances by Paco De Leon
Does money stress you out? Were you born into a working class family? Finance for the People is for you! Paco De Leon has written a pragmatic yet empathetic book about how to take care of ourselves in this economy. De Leon talks about why people are weird about money, the stories we tell … [Read more]
The Colony by Audrey Magee
CBR Bingo Square: New Another entry in my summer of Irish fiction, but also one of the two Irish novels that made it onto this year's Booker Prize longlist! (It's a fun longlist this year, too, with both the oldest and youngest nominees, and the shortest book ever nominated.) I'm still waiting on … [Read more]
Suburban Hell by Maureen Kilmer
Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. So this wasn't that great unfortunately. I loved the cover. I loved the synopsis. But it took me several days to finish this one. It just moved so freaking slow. And I just didn't care about any of the … [Read more]
