The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker I absolutely adored this book. I found it in my list of “books added” accidentally, having marked it there from a goodreads giveaway and then forgotten. Faced with a need for a good book, I bought it from audible and started listening to it the same day. …
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Mar 10
Book Review: If Walls Could Talk
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley This book could more accurately be called “Every day life in pre-modern England.” It’s great for anyone who wants to learn about what every day life in England was like in the middle ages through the early 20th century. Categorized by themes …
Mar 06
Book Review: Wicked Bugs
Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon’s Army & Other Diabolical Insects by Amy Stewart This is a book written on a similar vein to Amy Stewart’s WICKED PLANTS, which has a similar shape and layout. The previous book I read from a hard copy, but this one I listened to as an audiobook. I …
Feb 20
Book Review – Second Glance
Second Glance by Jodi Picoult I’d never head of Jodi Picoult, and only got this book because a secondhand copy was selling at the library for too cheap to pass up, so it surprised me that two separate people told me how much they loved her as an author when they spied the book cover. …