Rating: 5 / 5
Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven tells the story of a pandemic that kills a majority of the population, leaving the survivors in a shockingly realistic post-apocalyptic world.
Station Eleven: Emily St. John Mandel
In the Dream House: Carmen Maria Machado
Rating: 5 / 5
Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House is a fantastically unique, searingly honest memoir of one woman’s experience with abuse in a same-sex relationship.
Good Boy: Jennifer Finney Boylan
Rating: 5 / 5
Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs is a beautifully written, heartwarming memoir of the life – in stages from boyhood to womanhood – of trans activist, mother, and professor, Jennifer Finney Boylan, and the lessons that the many dogs in her life left her with.
Thank you to Celadon Books for the free advanced copy of this book!
Continue reading “Good Boy: Jennifer Finney Boylan”Catch and Kill: Ronan Farrow
Rating: 5 / 5
Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill is a fast-paced, quick-witted investigative account of the inquiry into Harvey Weinstein’s wrongdoing and the network that tried to keep the reporting quiet.
She Said: Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
Rating: 5 / 5
Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s She Said is an explosive, eloquent tell-all about New York Times journalists’ investigations into the crimes of Harvey Weinstein and the subsequent rise of the #MeToo movement.
Strange Planet: Nathan W. Pyle
Rating: 5 / 5
Nathan W. Pyle’s Strange Planet is a delightful collection of comics depicting mundane human activities that are wondrous and strange to the aliens of Strange Planet.
Huge thanks to William Morrow for gifting me this book!
Continue reading “Strange Planet: Nathan W. Pyle”The Only Plane in the Sky: Garrett Graff
Rating: 5 / 5
Garrett Graff’s The Only Plane in the Sky is a tremendously moving oral history of the days before, during, and after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
