Tag Archives: awards
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Read April 2017 Recommended for Americans ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It is no surprise that “Evicted” was the University Wisconsin-Madison’s Go Big Red book read for 2016, a book chosen by the chancellor and worked into campus-wide discussions and … Continue reading
bellwether by Connie Willis
Re-Read March 2017 Recommended for fans of light romantic comedy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I owe bellwether a review. Bellwether is a book that I inevitably turn to when I want something that is light, clever, literate … Continue reading
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
Read January 2017 Recommended ★ ★ ★ ★ First there was ‘chick-lit.’ Then there was ‘hick-lit.’ I hereby dub a new sub-genre: dick-lit. No, it’s not about sex, porny-readers. I’m thinking of such books as The Goldfinch, Less Than … Continue reading
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. A new classic.
Read January 2017 Recommended for sci-fi fans, people who wanted to like Aurora and didn’t, fans of Charlotte’s Web ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Sympathetic spiders? Inconceivable! –I do not think that word means what you think it means– Nope, … Continue reading
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Read September 2016 Recommended for fans of historical fiction Is there anything more controversial at Goodreads than star rating? I think not (and yes, I think it’s more controversial than porn or V-blogs). People have opinions on whether … Continue reading
The Diamond Age, Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson.
Read March to April 2016 Recommended for hard core Stephenson fans ★ ★ Initially, I wasn’t tempted by The Diamond Age, but the subtitle drew me in. A book advising young women? Interesting. However, given a choice between this … Continue reading
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
Read February 2016 Recommended for anyone with aging parents. ★ ★ ★ ★ Don’t be misled; cartoons don’t make for easy reading. Roz Chast takes an unflinching look at her interactions with her aging parents in their very, … Continue reading
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Read February 2016 Recommended for fans of young adult, biotech, Austria ★ ★ ★ An Adventure in Which an Aristocratic Young Man Discovers How to Pilot an All-Terrain Walker and that he is Now an Orphan, and a … Continue reading
A Dangerous Road by Kris Nelscott
Read February 2016 Recommended for fans of time period mysteries ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 It isn’t often a mystery surprises me. I mean, sure–I’m often surprised by the solution. But the storytelling of a mystery … Continue reading
