364 books overall; 188 books read in the last year; 16 books read in the last month. That's an average of 0 books each month.
So obviously I can’t get enough of the polygamy stories this year. And wow. Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer was amazing. Escape by Carolyn Jessop (my book review) and Shattered Dreams, My Life [...]
If there is one thing that I have learned from The Raucous Royals, Test Your Royal Wits: Crack Codes, Solve Mysteries and Deduce Which Royal Rumors Are True by Carlyn Beccia it is this: I’ll never remember the full title and I can not spell raucous. I have to look it up every time. But [...]
Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found by Marie Brenner is a memoir that I’m just not even sure how to review. Something tells me that I’m supposed to like this book. Perhaps, I thought that I would relate to Marie more than I did. I freely admit that my little brother [...]
Thanksgiving is quickly coming upon us and with so many Halloween and Christmas books on the market, Thanksgiving gets lost somewhere in the middle. So it’s great to see a book like This is the Feast by Diane Z. Shore available to pick up the slack.
This is the Feast begins as the Mayflower sets sail [...]
The Road of Lost Innocence, The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine by Somaly Mam is yet another one that I think everybody should read! It’s as simple as that: read this book. It’s heartbreaking, powerful, disturbing, and straightforward. It’s also an amazing account of how one person can rise above their circumstances and lift [...]
