Educated – Tara Westover
What’s it all about?: Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters...
View ArticleNonfiction November Week 3: Be The Expert/Ask the Expert/Become the Expert
Hello everyone and welcome to the third week of Nonfiction November! If you’d like to find out what it’s all about, please see my post two weeks ago where I revealed my Nonfiction November TBR. my post...
View ArticleNonfiction November Week 4: Reads Like Fiction
Hello everyone and welcome to the fourth week of Nonfiction November! If you’d like to find out what it’s all about, please see my post two weeks ago where I revealed my Nonfiction November TBR. my...
View ArticleThe Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales – Oliver Sacks
What’s it all about?: In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre,...
View ArticleNine Pints: A Journey Through The Mysterious, Miraculous World Of Blood –...
What’s it all about?: Most humans contain between nine and twelve pints of blood. Here Rose George, who probably contains nine pints, tells nine different stories about the liquid that sustains us,...
View ArticleIn Order To Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey To Freedom – Yeonmi Park with...
What’s it all about?: Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually made it to South Korea two years later after a harrowing ordeal, recognized that...
View ArticleMaid: Hard Work, Low Pay And A Mother’s Will To Survive – Stephanie Land
What’s it all about?: Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land’s memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara...
View ArticleWhen Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi (buddy read with Jennifer from Tar...
What’s it all about?: THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 ‘Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is...
View ArticleWhy I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race – Reni Eddo-Lodge
What’s it all about?: In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren’t...
View ArticleBanned Books 2019 – JUNE READ – Arming America: The Origins Of A National Gun...
What’s it all about?: Examines the American belief system regarding arms rights, and documenting the rarity of firearms in early America as well as the technological advances and events that made guns...
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