Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
This is a bit of a weird book to read, given that it’s on the academic side and it’s about attachment relationships and cults, but I think by now you know I read weird books. Written by a former cult member, Terror, Love & Brainwashing looks at how totalist groups operate and how attachment theory,… Read More Book Review: Terror, Love & Brainwashing by Alexandra Stein
I picked this up because I wanted something “easy” to read after a fairly taxing nonfiction read. Well, joke’s on me because Sweep was far more complex than what I expected from a Middle-Grade story and pretty much sucked me in and left me in tears by the end of the story. As you may… Read More Book Review: Sweep – The Story of a Girl and her Monster by Jonathan Auxier
I meant to read this around the same time I read The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr, but I didn’t feel like depressing myself twice in a row and got distracted with other books. Recently, though, a friend of mine commented that she sees a disconnect between the overly-macho culture that exists… Read More Book Review: Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes du Mez
I heard about this book when two people at the book swap recommended it. Alas, it wasn’t one of the books that was being swapped so instead of getting and reading it immediately, I ended up putting it on my TBR list until I couldn’t ignore it any longer. How Iceland Changed the World is… Read More Book Review: How Iceland Changed the World by Egill Bjarnason
This has been on my TBR for a while (as with most books, tbh) but it’s only been recently that I’ve been in the mood for fantasy. Half a King is a fast-paced tale of revenge as Yarvi, the unexpected king with a withered hand, seeks to take his revenge on his uncle who has… Read More Book Review: Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
I’ve had this on my TBR list ever since Zeezee talked about it… all the way back in 2021! Luckily, she continued to talk about it even after so it’s always been on my radar, it was just a matter of finding a copy. In the Garden of Spite is a fictional account of a… Read More Book Review: In The Garden of Spite by Camilla Bruce
Here is a book that I’ve owned for a pretty long time and finally got around to reading! Perhaps now, I can make another book haul (or maybe not, I have been so good in not buying more books or teacups). Frankenstein Dreams is a collection of Victorian science fiction stories, some excerpted from longer… Read More Book Review: Frankenstein Dreams edited by Michael Sims
Lying in Wait hooked me with its first line. I mean, take a look at this and tell me you aren’t curious: “My husband did not mean to kill Annie Doyle, but the lying tramp deserved it.” This was was really full of surprises. I thought I was going to read a thriller, but it… Read More Book Review: Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
I first heard about the German epic, the Nibelungenlied, from an episode of the BBC In Our Time podcast. The discussion really intrigued me so I sought out a translation of the epic – this time, I found the Hatto translation (though to be honest, I didn’t really do a deep dive into the translations… Read More Book Review: The Nibelungenlied translated by A.T. Hatto
I’m not going to lie, I started Honor wondering if it was going to be similar to A Burning because topically, both books do look at the Muslim-Hindu tension in India (though Honor also looks at the question of gender) but by the time I finished this, I was convinced that this is going to… Read More Book Review: Honor by Thrity Umrigar