Format: ebookPublished: January 9th, 2024Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – True Crime – Social JusticeGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars This book is fantastic, infuriating, upsetting, and inspiring in equal measure. It’s not radical to say we live in a patriarchal world, or to point out women face injustices every single day, while expected to smile and get onContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Furies: Women, Vengeance and Justice by Elizabeth Flock”
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Book Review: Blitz Spirit: Voices of Britain Living Through Crisis, 1939 – 1945 by Becky Brown
Format: ebookPublished: October 8th, 2020Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – HistoryGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars In Blitz Spirit, Becky Brown has assembled a series of extracts from the Mass Observation project, which tasked ordinary people with writing dairies immediately prior to and during the war years. It’s worth noting that Brown’s bibliography at the end shows there’s aContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Blitz Spirit: Voices of Britain Living Through Crisis, 1939 – 1945 by Becky Brown”
Book Review: Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Format: ebookPublished: September 3rd, 2020Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – HistoryGoodreads Rating: 3/5 Stars I really wanted to like this one much more than I did. But my reading experience was less because it’s not a great book and more, I think, that I am not the target audience for this. This book is not for moreContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh”
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Meant to Read in 2023 But Didn’t Get To
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Ah, so many. So many! Honestly, I never read allContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Meant to Read in 2023 But Didn’t Get To”
#5OnMyTBR: Non-Fiction
#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook and you can learn more about it here. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. Ah, non-fiction. Do you read much non-fiction? I quite like dipping into it, especially when I find subjects that really catch my interest. There is,ContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Non-Fiction”
Book Review: You Say Potato by Ben Crystal & David Crystal
Format: HardbackRelease Date: October 9th, 2014Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – History – LanguageGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars As someone who doesn’t have a stand-out, clear accent (I was told at university, “You sound Welsh when someone knows your Welsh. Otherwise you…don’t.” This was not the time I got drunk, slipped into a South Wales valleys accent, andContinueContinue reading “Book Review: You Say Potato by Ben Crystal & David Crystal”
Audiobook Review: The Life and Works of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser
Narrated by: Devoney LooserPublisher: Audible AudioGenre: Non-Fiction – LiteratureFormat: AudiobookRelease Date: January 29th, 2021Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars I really like The Great Courses series. These lectures are entertaining and informative, and I definitely think I’ll continue to check them out. I especially liked Looser in this one, who had a really clear and interesting deliveryContinueContinue reading “Audiobook Review: The Life and Works of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser”
#5OnMyTBR: Titles Starting with a ‘G’
#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook and you can learn more about it here or in the post announcing it. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. Found it a bit more tricky to find titles starting with G – at the moment, there are none on my ReadingContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Titles Starting with a ‘G’”
Audiobook Review: Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch
Narrated by: Rengin AltayGenre: Non-Fiction – HistoryAge: AdultPublisher: Grand Central PublishingFormat: AudiobookRelease Date: September 1st, 2020 Rating: 5/5 Stars This book is a series of biographies on various women from the Regency era, paying particular attention to difference between the popular portrayal of the era from Romance novels and shows like Bridgerton, to the actualContinueContinue reading “Audiobook Review: Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch”
Book Review: Memphis Mayhem by David A. Less
Publisher: ECW PressFormat: ebookRelease Date: October 6th, 2020Genre: Non-Fiction – History – MusicGoodreads Rating: 2/5 Stars I admit I struggled to get through this. I was really excited to pick it up, as I love seeing the way entertainment developed, the history of a particular aspect of it and the society around it that helpedContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Memphis Mayhem by David A. Less”
Unwrapping Words 