5 Reasons Why The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch is NOT a Feminist Book — An Infographic

September 2019 — A Wrap-Up

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and the Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi I would have bought all the propaganda against the revolution. I really would have. Except for these two things. One, the author didn’t wasn’t heroic or patriotic, she came across as a petulant child. And what’s more, she showed no…

Prepare to Get Only a Ghost of a Story and Plot in Ghost Story by Jim Butcher

So, I liked that Harry’s turning over a new leaf and reexamining all the hasty decisions he has made — and that they have consequences. However, the whole angelic involvement and the increasingly larger role it is beginning to play in the series is a turn-off for me. Dresden has never been religious, so I…

A Review of the Sensational, Cult Writers: 50 Nonconformist Novelists You Need to Know by Ian Haydn Smith, Kristelle Rodeia

I requested this book on Netgalley and am really glad I did! The book begins with a description of the qualities that the author considers make a writer a cult writer. Then, it provides information about 50 of them. Accompanying each author’s brief life history is a colored sketch with a quote from one of…

Death in Delft by Graham Brack

I had recently read a historical murder mystery and found it to be disappointing. So, going in, I wasn’t expecting much out of this one either. But that was before I encountered the self-deprecating style of the narrator. The protagonist is a cleric who’s secretly Catholic but owes his job and living to his being…

The Episode Where I’m Left Confused as to How I Feel about Dark Triumph by Robin LaFevers

What I LikedNinja Nuns #nuffsaid That the female assassins are slowly waking up to how the convent is manipulating them and twisting the meaning of their supposed religious vocation. And I’m thinking the last of them, Annith, is going to full-on rebel. Can’t wait to see that. Julian’s character. Sure, he’s all kinds of bad…