It’s been a few months since I reviewed two books in one quick review post. The only way I could think to connect these two is that they’re both for Adam @ Roof Beam Reader’s TBR Pile Challenge. These are my fourth and fifth reads for that challenge. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick Rating: ★★★ [ratings guide] Ugh, why am I reading books about […]
Goodreads | IndieBound | Chapters | Amazon Krysta @ Pages Unbound Review | The Guardian Review ★★★½ Key words to describe this book: Diversity and Canadian history and classism and folklore and sexism and racism and adventure! Whoo, that’s a lot for one book to address, but all these topics factor into the story. I guess the best word here is intersectionality? It’s great to see that in a novel […]
Goodreads | IndieBound | Chapters | Amazon Book 3 for the 2015 TBR Pile Challenge Andi @ Estella’s Revenge review | Shannon @ River City Reading review ★★★★ Highly recommended if the story of one man’s accumulation of wealth and his daughter’s peculiar handling of it throughout the 20th century intrigues you In the reader’s guide at the end of the book, Dedman describes the main threads of the story […]
Goodreads | IndieBound | Chapters | Amazon Book 2 for the 2015 TBR Pile Challenge New Republic review ★★★½ I think I added this book after seeing it featured at Chapters. This is an unusual memoir in that the person writing it doesn’t recall the bulk of the time she writes about. Susannah takes on the role of reporter into her own life. I can’t imagine how strange that must […]
Goodreads | IndieBound | Chapters | Amazon Book 1 for the 2015 TBR Pile Challenge Telegraph review ★★★½ Another book I might have given four stars (and I did on GoodReads) but I wouldn’t reread it. For the past few years, one of the first books I read in a new year has to do with war. Not sure how that happened, but that’s why I finally sought out this […]