The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
I saw Spaceballs before I saw Star Wars. I saw Robin Hood, Men in Tights before I saw Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. And I read The Weight of Blood before I read Carrie. And honestly, I think I made the right choice! I can’t imagine reading a story like Carrie from the perspective of a white guy in the 1970s, no matter how many times he claps back at JKR. I had some preconceived notions about this book – mainly I thought it was […]
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The Color of Law is the reason I have been absolutely plowing through Romances I trust to help feed my brain some needed positive feelings as this book is a big important book about a topic that is rage inducing. In The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Richard Rothstein marches the reader through the various manners by which the U.S. government has actively created and enforced the racial segregation we see all around us by baking it into […]
Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
Ugh. OK. This one was a little rough. It was such a good concept, but it was sooooo slow. I think the audiobook was about 20-21 hours. It probably could’ve been 10 and it would’ve been better. The premise is that some people in the world are werewolves. They were “infected” with a prion originated in wolves. I nerdily enjoyed the backstory of the disease. I could’ve listened to more about that! It starts out strong too. Patrick Gamble is on a plane flying to […]
As the sun descended in the west, a restless crowd gathered before a cedar tree. There was a chill in the December air, and it was thick with the tangy smell of sweat, fear and anticipation for what was about to happen. Boxed in by cars, a young 20 year old man named Cordie Cheek stood before a ladder with a rope around his neck. A teeming mass of men, women, and children threw epithets at him, and shared a palpable sense that justice was […]
