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  • Women’s History Month Books P8

    Now for my final post for Women’s History Month. Woo woo, I can’t believe I got to 8! #NotYourPrincess by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale This book is chock-full of essays, paintings, essays, inteviews stories and other mediums from Native American and First Nation women all over North America. It seeks to repair some…

  • Book Highlight: My Most Excellent Year

    I put this book under book highlights because I am so biasedly incapable of doing an objective review of this. This book by Steve Kluger is just wholesomely wonderful. Not in the sacherrine way but in a this is how life and people should be. Characters are everything to me when I read, and I…

  • Book Highlight: DC Comic Bombshells

    Okay so if you are a DC fan and badass women fan, you must read Marguerite Bennet’s amazing series, DC Comic Bombshells! It has badassery, it has feminism, it has women fighting nazis, it has women fighting bigots, it has women fighting in WWII, it has Eleanor Roosevelt as President! Really what could be a…

  • Book Highlight: Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman #1-2

    I’ll confess first, I thought this was going to be another funny crime comedy book in the vein of Stephanie Plum. While it did have some aspects of that since Maggie’s concussion gave her the magical ability to understand animals, and its all based in NJ, it has a lot more heart. Maggie has issues,…

  • Missed Potential in Tales from Shadowhunter Academy

    If it isn’t evident as you read, these are all my own opinions. Feel free to agree or disagree or just add your own thoughts in the comments section. Maybe it’s because I read the Shadowhunter Chroncilesout of order that I have this opinion. But I wish Tales from Shadowhunter Academy had more stories following…

  • Book Highlight: The English Roses

    I’ll admit I didn’t know where to put this as it’s been so long since I read it I can’t right a proper review, yet it didn’t feel like it would fit with the other genres I’ve posted about. Well, it probably could but it just stands out so much on its own it needs…

  • If you like this, try. . .

    I decided to take a little break from my “Favorite book (insert genre) suggestions” and try this. These are books I couldn’t fit under one particular category nor do I love them them enough to write a paragraph of why one should give it try. Besides I a lot of them have overlapping themes/genres/ideas with…

  • Women’s History Month Books P7

    Now here’s a little break from history books and nonfiction. Here’s relatable YA books focusing on double standards, femnisim, beauty, love and sexuality and all those things in between. Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu I forgot to put this in my Diverse Reads post of 2021. In fact it was the first book I read for…

  • Animal Books

    Nonfiction Marley and Me by John Grogan This is a classic dog story so I won’t go too into it. Just yes, read the book. It is relatable, funny and tearjerking all at once. You will fall in love with the “worst dog in the world” okay. Oogy: A dog only a family could love…

  • Historical Novels

    Nonfiction Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore This book takes on what should be a more well-known historical case in the history of women’s rights and workers rights. The case of the Dial Girls who slowly poisoned themselves and the managers who tried to willingly ignore their complaints and…