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 […]
Yesterday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and it’s one of the first years that I can remember that I didn’t post anything on social media. I didn’t repost anything. In fact, I stayed off social media completely. I didn’t even make a blog post. Because there was a […]
Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: Holocaust imagery, genocide, […]
This week, the prompt was a genre freebie and I decided to do something completely out of character. I’ve always been a fiction reader through and through, and only read nonfiction when I absolutely had to, like when it was assigned for classes. But last year, I decided […]
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years–using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social […]
Wow, we’re really getting into tough prompts early this year, huh? I don’t tend to read a lot of books that are primarily set outdoors, but after some intense thought, I managed to come up with at least a few. Here goes nothing! That’s all I can come […]
I’m in a reflective mood, even though there’s still close to two weeks left in the year. At the start of the year, I made a promise to myself that I’d read some more nonfiction books, and I actually stuck to that one. Each month, I chose at […]
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