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 […]
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 […]
Hi all! This week’s prompt coincides with Christmas Eve, and I’m obviously going to have to tweak the prompt because Santa doesn’t bring me anything. However, this week’s prompt is getting readjusted to books my family won’t buy me for Chanukah. I am going to go the extra […]
Betty Crocker Found Recipes: Beloved Vintage Recipes Worth Sharing Thank you to NetGalley and Harvest for providing me with a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. From Betty Crocker, the brand beloved by generations of Americans, a carefully curated treasure trove of more than […]
Night Owls Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. In this thrilling paranormal YA romance debut steeped in folklore, two estries—owl-shifting female vampires from Jewish tradition—face New York’s monstrous underworld to save the girl one of […]
March was a month full of ups and downs for me. The weather couldn’t decide if it wanted to be cold or warm, my energy and motivation couldn’t decide if it wanted to be at high levels or low levels, and the rain really did a number on […]
I finished February with 29 ARCs left to be read. Spring is definitely in the air, and I’m happy to see the weather starting to warm up and things starting to grow again. March was a busy month for me, but I still got a lot accomplished. I […]
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice Thank you to NetGalley and Spotify Audiobooks for providing me with a copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey […]
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History Thank you to NetGalley and Mariner Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A revelatory new history that reexamines the brutal reality of the Holocaust—and reinterprets the events as a living trauma from which […]
I finished December with 28 ARCs left to be read. January is one of those months that I love. There’s a fresh feel to the start of a new year, and I’m partial to my birthday month. I’ve started feeling better, and getting back on top of my […]
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