Burn Book by Kara Swisher
My book club chose Burn Book: A Tech Love Story (2024) by Kara Swisher as our latest book. We'd already read another tech memoir, Careless People, which I enjoyed. I was hoping I would like Burn Book as well. In the end, I didn't love it. Although there were parts that were engaging, I did not have … [Read more]
A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
4.5 stars Sir Robert "Robin" Blyth ends up in a civil service position he is vastly unprepared for, as it turns out, he is supposed to be a liaison between the secret magical world and the more mundane regular world. Usually, the post is held by an individual from a magical family just unlucky … [Read more]
The Gale by Mo Yan, Chengliang Zhu and Ying-Hwa Hu
The Gale is a beautiful and sad story. It is also a unique story and the back story is as good, if not better, about how the inspiration came about. There was a lot of love that went into this story and creation of the book. Author Mo Yan, illustrator Chengliang Zhu, translator Ying-Hwa Hu and … [Read more]
My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel by Chiara Lagani, Mara Cerri, Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel by Chiara Lagani (Adapter), Mara Cerri (Illustrator), Ann Goldstein (Translator), Elena Ferrante (Original author) Every so often I find a book, movie, song, or some form of entertainment that I both love and hate equally at the same time. All I'm going to … [Read more]
To Catch a Thief by David Dodge
To Catch a Thief is the story of John Robie, an American expatriate much accustomed to life in France. A trained acrobat, he made a living before the war as a notorious jewel thief who came to be known in the newspapers as "Le Chat." After eventually slipping up and getting caught, he was tried, … [Read more]
Butterfly Effects by Seanan McGuire
While I usually end up staying up too late whenever Seanan McGuire releases a new novel because I need to know what will happen, this novel took me longer to read than any other of her previous books (a whole 3 days so nothing drastic). However, while this one took longer than normal to truly pull … [Read more]
