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Between the World and Me

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Pages: 152 Genre: Memoir Published: July 15, 2015 Purchase: Amazon But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones,...

Persuasion

Persuasion by Jane Austen Pages: 260 Genre: Classics Published: 1818 Link: Amazon | Powell’s You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own...

Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish

Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan Pages: 416 Genre: Literary Fiction Published: 2002 Link: Amazon | Powell’s Gould’s Book of Fish has won many awards. It has been lauded with great praise for its magic realism, and while I did find Flanagan’s way with words quite lyrical,...

The Cuckoo’s Calling (Cormoran Strike #1)

The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling pseudonym) Pages: 456 Genre: Mystery Would I have read this novel if I hadn’t known it was written by J.K. Rowling? Probably not since I usually do not read detective novels. I am not sure why since I love a good...

All the Light We Cannot See

  All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr I normally would not have read this book. It did win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but I am not a fan of books about war so it would not have been something I would have chosen for myself. The...

The 100

The 100 by Kass Morgan I found the premise of this book intriguing. Nuclear war has taken place on Earth and a colony of people have lived in spaceships orbiting Earth for 300 years while waiting for the radiation to calm down so they can repopulate. After some tests,...

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler It’s hard to talk about this novel without giving too much away since a major piece of information is held back in the first part of the story. It does start in the middle, since Rosemary, a 22-year-old young...

The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel

Anthony Horowitz, with the blessing of Doyle’s estate, takes on Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. An older Dr. Watson reflects back on one case that was too gruesome for him to write about in the past, so he has waited until after Holmes...

Outlander (Outlander #1)

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon I’ve had a good friend talk about this book for years. Romance isn’t really a genre that I read. She had mentioned it had to do with time travel (briefly) and there was a lot of action and adventure in the Scottish Highlands. I still...

The Luminaries

  The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton Set in 1865-1866 in New Zealand during the gold rush, 13 men try to solve a bunch of local mysteries, involving an opium-addicted whore, a missing prospector, a recently deceased man with a wife that no one knew about and a scarred man...