"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
Wake Now in the Fire is about book banning and student protests, sensitive subjects on the right. While the book itself hasn’t been banned or challenged, it certainly could be, and I expect that somehow, somewhere, forces of darkness are mobilizing against it. It feels like a banned book, it looks like a banned book, and it reads like a banned book. Therefore I review it as such.
I saw the most recent “top ten” (actually eleven) list of challenged and targeted books in America and realized the title in the number one position, Patricia McCormick’s Sold, was one I’d not heard of before. Since my library had a copy, I decided to read and review it.
Nineteen Minutes is a young adult novel about a school shooting, the events leading up to it, and its aftermath.
This has been a good year for reading, maybe not as good as the Covid year or the two that followed, but still pretty good. In my case, it included some great re-reads, notably the two Michael Chabon masterpieces included in this end-of-year post. Not included here, but also revisited in 2024: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx […]
It’s the first day of Banned Books Week 2024 and I owe you all a new You Can’t Read That! post.
Six short book reviews: espionage, horror, science fiction, dystopian fiction, mystery-thriller, and a potential banned book.
The 57 Bus is young adult non-fiction. The narrative, in true crime tradition, opens with a brutal act, the intentional burning of one teenager by another on a cross-town bus in Oakland, California.
Six short book reviews: fiction, nonfiction, mystery, science fiction, thriller/espionage