Rachel Reads & Reviews

Book of the Month: The Great Alone

Ah the great Alaskan wilderness, a place to reconnect to nature. Or in Hannah’s novel, a place where family demons come to tear them apart with no chance for help in the middle of a blizzard. Aka a nightmare in my thinking.

rachelbeerwoman

November 23, 2024

Book/Author Highlight

#alaska, #anovel, #drama, #familycrisis, #historicalfiction, #kristinhannah, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #thegreatalone
Finished Nancy Drew!

It only took over a year and browsing through Internet archives to get to the final two Nancy Drew books that escaped my grasp-The Clue of the Whistling Bapipes and The Strange Message in the Parchment. Oddly enough, they both involve a lot of sheep. The Bagpipes have Nancy heading to her ancestral Scotland homeland…

rachelbeerwoman

November 19, 2024

Book Suggestions

#carolynkeene, #nancydrew, #nancydrewmysteries, #rachelreads&reviews, #theclueofthewhistlingbagpipes, #thestrangemessageintheparchment
Ranking Pretty Tough

I’m not a sports person as any of my friends would attest. Not watching and not doing. I’m not athletic and even if I were, my 4 foot nothing size would make me an easy tackle or block or whatever the term is. But sometimes I get struck by a vicarious need to read a…

rachelbeerwoman

November 18, 2024

Rankings

#acolddayunderthesun, #fifteenlove, #headgames, #makingwaves, #playingwittheboys, #prettytough, #rachelreads&reviews, #razorbill, #sarabiren, #sports, #stealingbases, #YA
Author Highlight: Coco Simon

Get ready for this one, with 58 books spreading across 4 different series, this prolific author has terrific taste.

rachelbeerwoman

November 17, 2024

Book/Author Highlight

#cocosimon, #donutdreams, #rachelreads&reviews, #simon&schuster, #sprinklesundays, #thecupcakediaries, #thenewbatch
Fall Nonfiction

Humans of Judaism edited by Nikki Schreiber Taken from the social media hashtag, this is a collection of stories from Instagram highlighting the breadth of the Jewish diaspora, their traditions and stories and tales of survival. From sweet stories of Bashert (think kismet) where two Holocaust survivors meet again in New York after the war, and…

rachelbeerwoman

November 16, 2024

Book Suggestions

#aliwong, #anitasarkeesian, #arccartbooks, #behindtheseams, #biography, #bookindustry, #briannajonnie, #bushelandpeckbooks, #celebrity, #crazybrave, #daniellehigley, #deardiary, #deargirls, #dianevonfurstenberg, #dollyparton, #ebonyadams, #fashion, #feiwel&friends, #funnybusiness, #graphicnovel, #hachettebookgroup, #heroesofworldwartwo, #historyvswomen, #humansofjudiasm, #ifIgomissing, #interviews, #jarretkeene, #jennyjordhal, #joyharjo, #kidliterature, #leonardmarcus, #lesleyarfin, #lindywoodhead, #martabreen, #memoir, #missingandmurderedindigenousgirlsandwomen, #nealshannacappo, #nikkischrieber, #nonfiction, #popstars, #proud, #publishing, #simon&schuster, #smashthepatriarchy, #taylorswift, #taylorswiftandtheclothesshewears, #tenspeedpress, #terrynewman, #thestoriesbehindthestories, #thewomanIwantedtobe, #vicepublishing, #warpaint, #worldwartwo, $ibtihajmuhammad
Long Live Evil Review

Rae enjoys the Time of Iron series. What she initially dismissed as one of her sister’s ridiculous fixations ends up being a lifeline when she gets a fatal diagnosis and has to distract herself in the endless waiting rooms and endless tests. She is especially attracted to the series’ villain, the Emperor. Not because of…

rachelbeerwoman

November 15, 2024

Reviews

#darkfantasy, #fantasy, #longliveevil, #orbit, #rachelreads&reviews, #sarahreesebrennen, #timeofiron
Fall Comics

Titans: Starfire by Kami Garcia. Illustrated by Gabriel Picolo. After the less than steller preceding books, Garcia gets the plot momentum moving with a good dose of character development. Much like the others, Kori thinks she is a normal teenage, albeit a bit more introverted due to her Ehlers-danlos syndrome making socialization a literal pain…

rachelbeerwoman

November 14, 2024

Book Suggestions

#autobiographical, #awkward, #berrybrookmiddleschool, #brave, #candlewickpress, #cheetara, #christinasoontornvat, #comingfoage, #crush, #dccomics, #domenicocarbone, #dynamitecomics, #elliotkahn, #enemies, #gabrielpicolo, #georgekambadais, #grace'stwist, #graphicmemoir, #graphicnovel, #graphicnovels, #hudafahmy, #hudafcares?, #joannacacao, #josiecampbell, #kamigarcia, #lostsoulbeatpeace, #maggiethrash, #middlegrade, #miniseries, #myadventureswithsuperman, #pablomcollar, #rachelreads&reviews, #scholastic, #soolee, #starfire, #svetlanachmakova, #teentitans, #thesquad, #volumetwo, #yenpress
Book Hightlight: Tales From A Not-So-Bratty Little Sister

I know, I know. I admitted in my last post that I have too aged out of the series to enjoy it. But I still keep coming back because I have to know how it ends. . . I have a feeling it might be coming soon, but Russell is certainly stretching it out.

rachelbeerwoman

November 13, 2024

Book/Author Highlight

#dorkdiaries, #rachelreads&reviews, #rachelreneerussell, #scholastic, #talesfromanotsobrattylittlesister
Nightwing

Since reading about Marvel’s best couple and leading calender man, I decided I’d give one of DC’s top hotties a look. As you can guess by the title I’m talking about the Flying Grayson! These five volumes by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo highlight how Nightwing is the best of the new generation of heroes.…

rachelbeerwoman

November 12, 2024

Book/Author Highlight, Reviews

#batman, #battleforbludhaven, #brunoedondo, #dccomics, #getgrayson, #leapingintothelight, #nightwing, #rachelreads&reviews, #superherocomics, #theleap, #timeofthetitans, #tomtaylor, #volumefive, #volumefour, #volumeone, #volumethree, #volumetwo
Fall Romances

Full Exposure by Thien-Kim Lam It’s been almost two years since I read the first book in the series, but it was wonderful to return to the girls of the sex positive series. Josie is a boudoir photographer but she’s been feeling burnt out. Plus it may be a steamy business, it’s not always a…

rachelbeerwoman

November 10, 2024

Book Suggestions

#accidentallyinlove, #avonromance, #beforeIletgo, #berkleyromance, #contemporaryromance, #daniellejackson, #diversereads, #fullexposure, #kennedyryan, #rachelreads&reviews, #thienkimlam