mystery noir/hard-boiled review 

2019: #2 – The Little Sleep (Paul Tremblay)

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The Little Sleep by Paul Tremblay

You figure out very quickly upon starting this book that what we have here is an unreliable narrator. So if you like unreliable narrators, continue on. In this book, you really can’t trust what you’re reading. Mark Genevich has narcolepsy, and he has it bad. He hallucinates, he’s prone to falling asleep unexpectedly, and occasionally, he’s even paralyzed but alert. Yet somehow he’s able to

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hf - World War II historical fiction review 

2019: #1 – All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)

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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

I enjoyed this book, though I found it very slow. What I particularly liked was that it explored World War II from a couple of perspectives that I haven’t read before, despite having read a *lot* of World War II novels.  The first main perspective is that of Marie-Laure, a young French girl who goes blind before the war and then must flee Paris with

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nf - memoir non-fiction review 

2018: #30 – Educated (Tara Westover)

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Educated by Tara Westover

Tara Westover grew up in rural Idaho, the youngest daughter of a somewhat fundamentalist (heavy on scripture but no plural wives) Mormon family. Following the FBI’s raid on Ruby Ridge in 1992, her father also completed his plunge into becoming a paranoid survivalist, complete with burying gas and guns on their land so they would be ready when the FBI came to take them away.

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