Tag: non-fiction

Talkin’ About Tolkien: Tolkien & The Silmarillion [Review]

6 December 2018 / review / 0 Comments
Talkin’ About Tolkien: Tolkien & The Silmarillion [Review]

Tolkien & The Silmarillion  by Clyde S. Kilby Format/source: Hardcover/Purchased secondhandPublished: 1976Publisher: Harold Shaw PublishersLength: 89 pages Genre: Biography★★★★  Yes, this delightful little volume is ‘outdated’, having been published in1976, a year before The Silmarillion. But it remains a valuable read as author Clyde S. Kilby, an Inklings scholar and creator of the Marion E. Wade Center,  knew Tolkien personally and shares intimate recollections of the summer he spent working with Tolkien in 1966 to prepare The Silmarillion for […]

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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic [Family Reads]

27 August 2018 / family reads / 0 Comments
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic [Family Reads]

Why we chose Jennifer Niven’s Ada Blackjack Mom had read somewhere about Ada (likely in a Bathroom Reader). She mentioned to me that she was interested in reading more about Ada. As someone who enjoys reading about Arctic exploration, and loved Niven’s previous book about the Karluk and her men’s disastrous time at Wrangel Island, I eagerly suggested this book for our next buddy read. In September 1921, four young men […]

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The Children’s Home + 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act [Review]

13 July 2018 / brief reviews / 0 Comments
The Children’s Home + 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act [Review]

The Children’s Home by Charles Lambert In a sprawling estate, willfully secluded, lives Morgan Fletcher, the disfigured heir to a fortune of mysterious origins. Morgan spends his days in quiet study, avoiding his reflection in mirrors and the lake at the end of his garden. One day, two children, Moira and David, appear. Morgan takes them in, giving them free reign of the mansion he shares with his housekeeper Engel. Then […]

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Oji-Cree Elder Ma-Nee Chacaby’s Extraordinary Life Story [Review]

23 April 2018 / review / 2 Comments
Oji-Cree Elder Ma-Nee Chacaby’s Extraordinary Life Story [Review]

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louisa Plummer Format/Source: Paperback/Purchased Published: May 2016 Publisher: University of Manitoba Press Length: 264 pages Genre: Memoir ★★★★     The subtitle of this aptly describes its content. Born in 1950 in a tuberculosis sanatorium, Chacaby was raised in a remote Ojibwa-Cree community in Ontario by her extraordinary grandmother, who was estimated to have been born in the 1860s.  […]

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Learning About Identity with Ash Hardell’s The ABC’s of LGBT+ [Review]

23 March 2018 / review / 0 Comments
Learning About Identity with Ash Hardell’s The ABC’s of LGBT+ [Review]

The ABC’s of LGBT+ by Ash Hardell* *In the time since this book was published, Ash both changed their name and got married, hence why I say this book is by Ash Hardell but the print version says otherwise. Format/Source: Paperback/Library (Also available for legitimate free download!) Published: October 2016 Publisher: Mango Media Length: 170 pages Genre: Non-fiction ★★★★★ The ABC’s of LGBT+ introduces over 100 terms to describe gender, sexual, and romantic identities. The book consists […]

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