To celebrate Women’s History Month, let’s discuss books about real women. They can be biography, autobiography, memoir, graphic memoir, historical fiction, or even non-fiction expose. I am going to ramble here about some that I have enjoyed across many of these genres. Let’s start with me as a … [Read more]
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CBR Diversions – Reading about real women – Women’s History Month.
Never in her thirty-five years of being Black did Helen Beck expect to be in the middle of a forest with Enya playing on battery powered speakers.
I’ll Come Back for You by Charish Reid
I’ll Conjure for You by Charish Reid
With The Beck Sisters Hauntings series, Charish Reid has entered a new phase, and I love it. I'll Come Back for You and I'll Conjure for You are creepy, atmospheric, funny, heartfelt, and spicy. Horror isn't my preferred genre, but I'll follow an author I trust out of my comfort zone. Mix in romance … [Read more]
Stays the Queen
The Hunter by Tana French
Tana French is our best living crime writer. Crime fiction, at its best explores the true nature of human beings when at their worst. If there are no atheists in fox holes, there are no angels with guns in their hands. What motivates us to sin? What are the consequences? Why do we commit evil … [Read more]
You can’t spell “heart” without “art,” man!
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
The Museum of Modern Love centers around Marina Abramović’s real-life performance art piece “The Artist is Present” (2009). In 2009, Abramović spent more than 700 hours sitting across a table from strangers, one at a time, at the Museum of Modern Art. She sat for three months and truly looked at … [Read more]
It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science. Contact is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.
Solaris by Stanisław Lem
You are doing all you can to stay human in an inhuman situation. Noble it may be, but it isn't going to get you anywhere. And I'm not so sure about it being noble – not if it's idiotic at the same time. ― Stanisław Lem, Solaris It’s what we wanted: contact with another civilization. We have it, … [Read more]
See you later, Intermediator
Later by Stephen King
‘Later’ is a highly acclaimed audiobook, written by Stephen King. I’m a Constant Reader, but I’ve never gone the audiobook-route for King before, so this was a new experience for me. The book was narrated by Seth Numrich, an America actor of the stage and screen. I’ve taken the time to look into … [Read more]
First Book of the Year – A Book About Books
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
This is a late start for me this year—I have had a very busy couple of months. Hopefully things smooth out a bit! Lucky me, Mark Lawrence knocks it out of the park again. The man can write some serious engaging blends of fantasy and science fiction. With The Book That Wouldn’t Burn—the first book … [Read more]
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