Maybe Jenna Bush has better taste in books than I thought?
Tag Archives: book reviews
REVIEW: Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America, Kate Washington
“Long Covid” may mean we’ll have a far larger population in need of long-term care–and who’s going to do it?
Books I Enjoyed in 2021 (that make great gifts!)
How’s your Black Friday going?
HAPPY PUB DAY! The Fell by Sarah Moss
Fell. This is a great read set in autumn 2020, exploring national identity, COVID-19, and motherhood in a unique way. Check out the blurb below:
REVIEW: 56 Days, Catherine Ryan Howard
We’ve reached the “books about COVID” stage of the pandemic.
REVIEW: Femlandia by Christina Dalcher
The Handmaid’s Tale: quickly becoming the most misunderstood dystopian book since 1984.
REVIEW: Lights Out in Lincolnwood, Geoff Rodkey
It wasn’t funny when The Simpsons did it either.
BOOK REVIEW: Never Saw Me Coming, Vera Kurian
Never Saw Me Coming is a book that does what it says on the tin. Well, maybe. Despite the title, it seems I mostly saw this book coming miles and miles away.
REVIEW: I Named by Dog Pushkin, Margarita Gokun Silver
It seemed like an appropriate time to read Margarita Gokun Silver’s I Named My Dog Pushkin, a collection of essays exploring her experience coming to the US from the Soviet Union with her family, fleeing the country’s imminent collapse and the negative effects Gorbachev’s perestroika and glasnost policies had on her Soviet Jewish family.
BOOK REVIEW: Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman
I’ve never lived in LA (and I’ve only visited once), but somehow the city still looms large in my consciousness.