Northwestern University Book Haul!
Here are the books I recently received courtesy of Northwestern University. University publishers are hidden gems in the book world, often publishing some of the most unique books on the market. How to Quiet a Vampire by Borislav Pekic Get it on Amazon Get it on Bookshop.org God Went Like that by Xyta...
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Yellow Bird: The Book That Did What Killers of the Flower Moon Couldn’t
Season 1 of HBO’s True Detective is largely considered one of the best seasons of television of all time. Not only have the subsequent seasons failed to reach the bar set by the first season, they’ve generally been considered pretty bad, even without living in the shadow of McConaughey...
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The Anarchist Who Shared My Name Review
One of the best things about owning a lot of books you haven’t read yet, is you get to go shopping on your own bookshelf when it’s time to read a new book. Sometimes I have a rough reading plan laid out for myself, other times I may simply...
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A Land Without Borders by Nir Baram Review
It’s so tempting to start this article with something like “with everything going on in the Middle East right now…” but truthfully, if you’re at all familiar with the Israel/Palestine conflict, that sentence could be referring to many, many times over the last 50+ years. However, at the time of...
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5 Books with a True Detective: Night Country Vibe
True Detective Season 1 is considered to be one of the greatest television shows of all time. While the next two seasons failed to deliver on the high expectations of fans set by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, season 4 looked poised to possibly take a swing at the...
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Into That Darkness Review
Ellie Wiesel, Viktor Frankl, Primo Levi. These names are synonymous with Holocaust Memoirs.. The “Heroes” who experienced the horrors of history’s most evil men and lived to tell the tale. There are many others. Holocaust memoir is a genre unto itself. A genre, rightfully dominated by Holocaust survivors. But...
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It Takes Two to Tango: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Picking a random book up off of the shelf and buying it without knowing anything about it or its author is a huge risk. This risk is not necessarily a financial one. Most of us have been more cavalier in spending $20. In fact, with inflation that’s about the...
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2023 Year in Review
In the order in which I read them:100 years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MarquezBetween Two Fires by Christopher BuelhmanThe Pale Blue Eye by Louis BayardHow to Hide an Empire by Daniel ImmerwharThe Pearl by John SteinbeckBabel by RF KuangProject Hail Mary by Andy WeirMy Body by Emily RatajkowskiInherent...
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