Book Reviews and a Little More…
I don’t often read poetry, but one of the prompts for the Read Harder challenge is “Read an audiobook of poetry” and I’ve heard of this one for a long time so I decided to give it a shot. Milk and Honey is a collection broken into four parts, each with a different theme — the hurting, the loving, the breaking, and the healing. The result
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I read The Night Circus several years ago, so I had a little bit of an idea what to expect to this new book from Morgenstern. Basically, it would have beautiful descriptive language, but would meander and probably jump around. And I wasn’t wrong! The Starless Sea is basically the story of Zachary Ezra Rawlins, a college student who happens upon a strange old book in the library
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This. Is. Intense. Catch and Kill is Ronan Farrow’s account of his reporting of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual crimes. The story started out as an exploration of Hollywood’s “casting couch”, but it wasn’t long before Farrow realized that the story went much further than Rose McGowan, one of the first women to come forward. Except that the deeper he went and the closer he got
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I’ve been meaning to read this for a long time, and I’m glad I finally got around to it! Persepolis is the story of a piece of Marjane Satrapi’s childhood, beginning during the Islamic Revolution in Iran when she was 6 and ending at age 14, when her parents send her away. I really only had the very barest of knowledge about the Islamic Revolution,
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