Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums, that New York Times bestselling author Clint Smith describes as “a book that left me breathless.” On a cold […]
The Bookstore Keepers Thank you to NetGalley, Brilliance Publishing, and Amazon Original Stories for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. The Gibson sisters weren’t expecting to speak to each other ever again after Isabel ran off to New York and […]
Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan Thank you to libro.fm for providing me with an ALC of this audiobook. I am offering my honest opinion voluntarily. The impassioned memoir of Afghanistan’s Sima medical doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the […]
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history–from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism–have been shaped not by humans but by germs According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their […]
Babylonia Thank you to NetGalley and Recorded Books for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient history, as Casati reimagines the rise to power of the Assyrian empire’s […]
A Killing Cold Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. A woman invited to her wealthy fiance’s family retreat realizes they are hiding a terrible secret—and that she’s been there before, by the […]
Beautiful Ugly Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for providing me with an audiobook ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. The million-copy bestselling Queen of Twists Alice Feeney returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage. . . . . . […]
The Vanishing Bookstore Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture Audio for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. ‘Every story needs a happy ending. And you can’t have yours until you find the bookstore.’ 1692. On the outskirts of Salem, a bookstore […]
Breath of the Dragon Thank you to NetGalley, Wednesday Books, and Macmillan Audio for providing me with ARCs of this ebook and audiobook in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: violence, gore, murder, death of a parent (off-page) The first novel in a sweeping YA fantasy duology […]
Wuhan: A Documentary Novel Thank you to NetGalley and Post Hypnotic Press Inc. for providing me with access to this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. As rumours of a strange new illness in Wuhan spread via social media in China, 25-year-old citizen reporter Kcriss decides to […]
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