A Travelogue I don't entirely remember what led me to pick up Displacement, but it came out around the same time my grandfather was moved to a nursing home and was suffering severe memory loss. But however this book came to be in my possession, it started a years long love of Lucy's books which… Continue reading Displacement by Lucy Knisley
A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation It's another Nonfiction Book Club selection! This was one that I put forth to the group for voting and it was definitely a compelling read. Synopsis From the publisher marketing:Handsome and charismatic, Albert Hicks had long been known in the dive bars and… Continue reading The Last Pirate of New York by Rich Cohen
I am so excited to be participating in my first Nonfiction November! I've been following the reviews on What's Nonfiction and had so many lovely comments back and forth with Rennie that I figured it about time I commit to joining in for the month, even though it's a hectic one at the bookstore (and… Continue reading Week 1: Year in Nonfiction
Happy November! The first three Tuesdays of this month have a reasonable number of new releases, but after this it dies off a bit until the end of January. I'll still have lots of books to tell you about for January, but this month will actually be two-fold, November & December. As the book buyer… Continue reading New This Month: November & December 2020
Fourth Book Published in the Verity series Code Name Verity will forever and always be one of my all time favorite books. Whenever Elizabeth Wein has released a new book in the series (none of which follows the other directly but all are related) I immediately want to read it. And while none has thus… Continue reading The Enigma Game by Elizabeth Wein
It's been a quasi-successful blogging month - I managed a review every Sunday and quite a few Comic Mondays! Each image links to the post, and I've also included the books I finished this month and the virtual events that I ran this month (three!) for the store that I'm the manager for, Towne Book… Continue reading October Wrap Up
Growing Up Kennedy This summer, the last of the nine Kennedy siblings, Jean, passed away at the age of 92. I'd had a copy of The Nine of Us sitting on my shelf as an ARC and as I've been working my way threw all my old ARCs, I figured it time to read The… Continue reading The Nine of Us by Jean Kennedy Smith
Recently I went to my local comic shop (New Wave Comics in Skippack, PA) to pick up an absurd number of comics they'd been holding for me. Of course, as usual, I had a poke around the trade paperbacks that they have in as they often differ from the ones we carry at the store,… Continue reading Sara by Garth Ennis & Steve Epting
The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema When the world is crap, we need some brevity to cheer ourselves up. Shit, Actually, is that brevity - and I enjoy everything Lindy West writes, so reading this was a given. Synopsis From the publisher marketing:New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy West was once… Continue reading Shit, Actually by Lindy West
I've been in a romance mood lately for some reason, so I thought I'd revisit some of my favorite literary crushes over the years! Elementary & Middle School Alex - Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech - Alex was probably my first school girl book crush. I related so much to Mary Lou - she… Continue reading Literary Crushes & Book Boyfriends
