Hi Everybody!! Today is the last Monday of the year! You know what that means? It’s the 3rd annual year-end countdown of books* I reviewed in 2022! *This year I expanded my reviews to include more movie adaptations of the novels I read for this website. At least one of those will be on here.Continue reading “Top 3 Best and Worst Books* of 2022”
Category Archives: Biography
Maus Book Review
Content Warning: This review discusses nudity as well as depictions of violence, genocide, and suicide. On January 10, 2022, the McMinn County School Board voted unanimously to remove Maus – a 1986 graphic novel by Art Spiegelman – from its 8th grade curriculum. Their main concerns were the profanity, brief nudity, and depictions of violenceContinue reading “Maus Book Review”
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World Book Review
Every now and then, a book will show up at the right place and the right time. When that happens, I’ll know I have to read it right then and there. I had this occurrence recently when I picked up the Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron with BretContinue reading “Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World Book Review”
What Am I Reading – Chapter Fourteen
Hi Everybody! We’re halfway done with this year! Can you believe it? I finally finished all four volumes of A Polar Bear in Love recently. I’m also currently reading Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars: Making a Legend by Simon Van Booy and Harvey Briggs. And today, I have two newContinue reading “What Am I Reading – Chapter Fourteen”
Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World Book Review
Warning: This review will briefly discuss sexual assault. As a librarian, one of my tasks is to do collection development. What does this mean? It involves adding items to and removing ones from the collections that I’m in charge of as well as keeping them up to date. So, at least once a week, IContinue reading “Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World Book Review”
Tesla: Inventor of the Modern Book Review
It has occurred to me that I have never reviewed a biography on this website. I am going to remedy this with analyzing Tesla: Inventor of the Modern by Richard Munson – a great level-headed biography of the inventor Nikola Tesla. What makes a great biography? I will tell you. Since a biography is aContinue reading “Tesla: Inventor of the Modern Book Review”
Book Reviews From the Vault: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, A Sortabiography
There were a multitude of reasons why I started reviewing books and sharing them with others. One of them was this particular author Eric Idle. He has a reader’s blog on his website, and he would promote it on Twitter. I thought that this was so interesting that I wanted to do it myself. SoContinue reading “Book Reviews From the Vault: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, A Sortabiography”
Book Reviews by a Chick Who Reads Everything 